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"this ardor of mine in clinging to his memory " ; but even if in memoria 

 is really Latin in this sense (which may be doubted), it is surely not 

 in accordance with the usage of Vitruvius. He has the word memoria 

 sixteen times besides here. In six passages it denotes literally the 

 faculty of memory (3, 18; 7, 23; 10, 10; 103, 22; 104, 11; 157, 12). 

 In five, it refers to the future, — to the record which one is to leave 

 for posterity, as in the phrase posteris memoriae tradi (cf. 2, 12; 4, 22; 

 63, 12; 155, 11 and 19). Once it means "fame " (63, 18); twice we 

 have the common nostra memoria, "in our time" (162, 7; 251, 3), 

 and once post nostram memoriam (218, 4). 31 Finally there is a pecu- 

 liar usage of the plural, probably in the sense of "history " (217, 20). 

 It is obvious that the idea of "remembering" and of "memory" in 

 the literal sense is the prevalent meaning in Vitruvius, and so I have 

 taken it in our passage. 



3. in te contulit favorem: Schneider has this note: "Displicet in 

 sermone Vitruvii favor, quern is transtulit ad filium, cum potius ex 

 nostrorum hominum sensu petere ab Octaviano deberet, ut is in me- 

 moria patris permanens ad Vitruviura favorem transferred" And 

 Ussing 32 translates: "This ardor of mine has transferred its favor 

 to thee," and then he remarks upon the idea as "coarse and out of 

 taste." These criticisms seem based upon a mistaken notion of the 

 meaning of the Latin word favor. It is not at all a common word, 

 particularly in republican Latin. It is not found in Ennius, Plautus, 

 Terence, Caesar, or Nepos. Cooper 33 speaks of it as one of the 

 seven substantives in -or that are found in Cicero and not in earlier 

 writers. In its meaning it is very restricted; indeed, it is almost 

 technical until well on in the imperial period, and the English word 

 "favor" is consequently an exceedingly unfortunate one to employ 

 in the translation of it. In republican and early imperial times it 

 appears to be confined to the theatrical and political spheres, in 

 which it denotes the "applause " or "support " which is given to an 

 actor or to a politician by his well wishers. Cicero uses it only four 

 times. In Rose. Com. 29, speaking of the actor Panurgus, he says: 

 quam enim spem et expectationem, quod stadium et quern, favorem 

 seeum in scaenam attulit Panurgus, quod Rosei fuit discipulus. Qui 

 diligebant hunc, illi favebant. And in Sest. 115, in a passage where he 

 is speaking of expressions of popular opinion at theatrical or other 

 shows, we find : qui rumore et, ut ipsi loquuntur, favore populi tenetur 



31 These last three occurrences really afford no support'to Mortet's strange 

 interpretation of in eius memoria. 



32 Observations, 9 f. 



33 "Word Formation in the Sermo Plebeius, 25. 



