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spelling of the word be correct, it may be a popular or military slang-word, derived- 
from petere. | 
54. Crusta. Both manuscripts agree as to the word and its definition ; but the Cod. 
Ricc. has between gladiorum and crusta the words Unde Cicero. Whether they belong 
to the words immediately preceding, and were intended to introduce an illustration, or 
to some sentence lost, I am not able to say. 
55. Hilarum. This article is in the Cod. Vat. only. The neuter form of the adjec- 
tives and participles is to be noticed. Whence the definition is taken I do not know. 
After this brief examination of the several articles of the fragment, some general 
considerations on the plan, age, and sources of Petronius suggest themselves. The first 
is as to the plan and object of the author in making his compilation. It appears most 
probable that the compilation owes its existence to the circumstance that the author, in 
the course of his reading, made notes of such expressions as seemed to him of interest, 
and that whatever traces of a plan or systematic arrangement may be discovered are 
owing to the plan or order of reading pursued by the author, rather than to the inten- 
tion of furnishing a glossary arranged according to some system. The fifty-five arti- 
cles of which the collection consists may be divided into the following seven classes: — 
I. Natural History: 1, Nitrum; 2, PES 3, Capparis; 9, Coloquintis; 50, 
Dipsas. 
- II. Technical Tesi 4, Epinicia; 5, Exedrae ; 6, Scalptura ; 1, Mulsum ; 8, Peri- 
bolus; 10, Classica; 11, Synaxis; 12, Anaglypha ; 14, Carpasinus ; 15, Lorica ; 16, 
Rheuma; 17, Scutra; 18, Amullae; 19, Catalogus; 31, Intra Kalendas. Test 
III. Hebrew Terms: 13, Musach ; 52, Iobel. 
IV. Etymological: 20, Avarus; 21, Locuples; ; 26, Priva; 27, Italia ; 28, Elegantia ; 
30, Lictorem ; 33, Humanitas; 35, Faciem ; 36, Profligare; 37, Vestibulum ; ; 98, Ves- 
cum ; 39, Foenerator; 40, Assiduus; 42, Soror; 43, Frater ; 44, Humilitas; 45, Man- 
suetudo ; 46, Devotio; 47, Misericordia; 48, Pax; 49, Luctus and Dolor; 53, Peta; 
54, Crusta. 
V. Political Terms: 22, Lex; 23, Populus; 24, Plebs; 25, Plebiscitum; 32, Po- 
merium. 
VI. Synonymes: 29, Mendacium and Mentiri; 34, Manubiae and Praeda; 55, Hi- 
larum. 
VII. PEEL E o 41, Quin ; 51, Adeo. 
