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as it describes not merely dolor and luctus, but also their opposites. The language 
itself (vivificatio *) shows the late age of the definition. 
50. Dipsas. There is some difference between the two manuscripts. The word is 
in the Cod. Ricc. incorrectly spelled. Cf. Solin. 27, 31: * Plures diversaeque aspidum 
species verum dispares effectus ad nocendum: dipsas siti interficit; hypnale, quod 
somno necat teste etiam Cleopatra, emitur ad mortem.” It is apparent that Petronius 
has derived his description, which is more full than that of Solinus, from another 
source. Cf. Dioscorid. Ther. 13: Tots Se dnx0ciow úro Supddos arreyvos dyKos éyxevtas 
kat Sos ériretapevov ¡oxupús, wate amdjpwrov kal adidherrrov elvas. 
. 51. Adeo. There is some difference between the two manuscripts. F estus gives 
simply the etymology of the word: “Adeo duas habet significationes. Nam cum prima 
acuta effertur, idem significat, quod accedo, ut cum dicimus adeo praetorem. Cum 
autem secunda, idem quod usque eo, non quidem secundum rationem, quia ad praepo- 
sitio accusativis accommodata est, sed vetusta quadam loquendi consuetudine."  Prisci- 
anus, L. 16 de coniunctione, speaks of a coniunctio completiva.t The passage of 
Virgil quoted by Petronius is ZEn. 1, 567: * Non obtusa adeo gestamus pectora Poeni." 
Whence the material of the article is taken I am not able to say; e from 
Nigidius. | | 
52. Iobel. There is some difference between the two manuscripts. Petronius i is of 
course mistaken in calling the word Greek; itis Hebrew, bai, a shout, from the verb 
GH to shout. The word has not etymologically the signification of dismission or 
release, but received it in consequence of one of the special Jewish customs connected 
with the year of jubilee WE DA. so called because it was announced by the sound 
of trumpets) in which the hired servants were freed (Lev. xxv. 41) The Vulgata 
translates the term annus jubileus ; but whether the word jubileus is in any Christian 
writer used in the sense of remissus, released, I am not able to say. The signification 
which approaches nearest to that of Petronius occurs Isidor. 5, 37: “ Jubileus inter- 
pretatur remissionis munus. Est enim Hebraicus et sermo et numerus, qui septenis 
annorum hebdomadibus, id est quadraginta novem annis, texitur, in quo clangebatur 
tubis, et ad omnes revertebatur antiqua possessio, debita — confirmabantur 
libertates." : 
53. Peta. There is no difference between the two manuscripts. — Sur 
.* Cf. Augustinus in Psalmum xl. : “ Sed vivificationem nobis illam promittit, de qua dicit apostolus," eta. 
t * Completivae sunt vero, autem, quidem, equidem, quoque, enim, nam, namque et fere quaecunque. con- 
iunctiones ornatus causa vel metri nulla significationis necessitate ponuntur, hoc nomine oc This, of 
course, is not the place to speak of the inadequacy of Priscian's definition. 
