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lator must select a word or phrase which will cover all the contingen- 

 cies, and hence I have selected "rewards for good service." 



primo: "for the first time," "originally." So in 209, 25, cum 

 primo aqua a capite inmittitur ; 36, 2, cum ergo hacc ita fucrint primo 

 constituta. 



7. cum tribuisti . . . servasti: these two verbs do not denote coin- 

 cidence of action, but here, as well as in three other passages in Vi- 

 truvius (50, 12; 59, 26; 157, 2), we have the perfect indicative in 

 both parts of a sentence, the protasis of which is a survival of the 

 old indicative narrative cwm-clause. On such sentence, see Hale, 

 The CM?ft-construction, 204 ff., where he cites the same combination 

 occurring, for instance, in Caes. B. C. 3, 87, 7; Bell. Hisp. 18, 2; 

 Galba ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 30, 4. 



recognitionem : This is a rare word, and it occurs first in Vitruvius. 

 Pauckcr (Meletemata Altera, 48) cites only Livy for it, and Cooper 

 in his Sermo P.ebeius (4 ff.) does not include it in the list of the ninety- 

 four abstracts in -tio which Vitruvius added to the Latin language. 

 It is not found in Cicero 48 (though he added hundreds of such ab- 

 stracts) nor in Caesar. Our study of its meaning must begin with 

 the remark that it seems never to signify a "recognition" in the modern 

 sense of an acknowledgment of a person's services, standing, or the 

 like. Neither does it mean "favor" (" Gewogenheit," Reber). In 

 the other sense in which we use "recognition," that is, to denote a 

 "knowing again" of somebody whom we have known before, it is 

 found twice in Latin, — both times in that form of the well-known 

 story of Androcles and the lion as it is related by Gellius; cf. Index 

 Capit. .5, 14, recognitionem inter se mutuam ex vetere notitia hominis 

 et leonis ; and 5, 14, 14, turn quasi mutua recognitione facta. This 

 meaning of the substantive is found also in the verb recognosco ; cf. 

 Cic. Fam. 12, 12, 1, and T. D. 1, 57; and particularly Livy 5, 16, 7, 

 receptis agrorum suorum spoliis Romam revertuntur. Biduum ad 

 recognoscendas res datum dominis ; tertio incognita sub hasta veniere. 

 But it is at once clear that this meaning of recognitio will not suit the 

 passage in Vitruvius, where there is no question of the renewal of an 

 acquaintance between him and Augustus. We must therefore seek 

 another meaning, and we find at once that, except in Gellius, it con- 

 veys but one idea, — that of an investigation, inspection, or review. 

 Thus Livy has it in 42, 19, 1, per recognitionem Postumi consulis 

 magna pars agri Campani recuperata in publicum erat (cf. 42, 1, 6, 

 senatui placuit L. Postumium consulem ad agrum publicum a privato 



48 Unless the reading of inferior codd. be accepted in Verr., 4, 110. 







