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coepit placata favere; and the theatrical usage seems to me to appear 

 in Ann. 419, matronae moeros complent spectare faventes. In Terence, 

 Eun. 91G, Mi faveo virgini is said by a "supporter" (though not 

 political) of the maiden in question, and in Andr. Prol. 24, f arete, 

 adeste aequo auimo, we have again the theatrical meaning of "applaud." 

 But when we reach the classical period, the political meaning is very 

 prominent. Caesar uses the verb five times, and always in this sense : 

 e. g., B. C. 2, 18, 6, provinciam omnem Caesaris rebus favere cognoverat 

 (cf. 1, 7, 1 ; 1, 28, 1 ; B. G. G, 7, 7; 1, 18, 8). See also Cicero, Fam. 

 12, 7, 1, Javebam et rei publicae, cui semper favi, et dignitati tuae (cf. 10, 

 1, 3, and 3, 2; Att. 12, 49, 1). And in his orations, Cicero employs the 

 verb some twenty-five times in this sense: 36 e. g., Sest. 21, omnes boni 

 semper nobilitati favemus ; cf. Plane. 18. Sallust uses faveo in the 

 political sense in Cat. 17, 6, inventus pleraque Catilinae ineeptis 

 favebant; cf. 48, 1 ; J. 85, 5. Finally I may cite Veil. Pat. 2, 26, 2, 

 faventis (ace. pi.) Sidlae partibus. In view of all this, I think that it 

 should be granted that when Vitruvius uses the word in our passage,37 

 he is thinking of this technical political sense. He had served under 

 Julius Caesar and was devoted (studiosus) to him. When Caesar was 

 gone, "my devotion, continuing unchanged as I remembered him 

 {idem studium meum in eius memoria permanens), bestowed its sup- 

 port upon you (in te contulit favorem)." This is a literal translation 

 of the passage. Vitruvius may take a clumsy way of saying "inclined 

 me to support you," but certainly no statesman to-day or in antiquity 

 would see anything coarse or out of taste in an author's recalling the 

 fact that, at a critical period, he had lent that statesman his support. 

 And this interpretation of the passage involves no distortion of the 

 plain intent of the Latin; for the construction and meaning of in te 

 contulit favorem is illustrated by Cic. Fam. 13, 50, 2, in me officia et 

 studio, Brundisi contulisti; cf. Att. 1, 1, 4; Fam. 10, 1, 3; 15, 2, 8.38 

 The usage of Vitruvius himself offers us no exact parallel, 39 but many 



36 In the theatrical sense he employs it (as well as the substantive favor) 

 in R. C, 29, which I have already quoted (p. 162). 



37 He has it nowhere else, nor faveo, nor fautor. 



38 Mortet, Rev. Arch., 41, 50 (1902), has this note: "La vraie forme 

 classique serait ici conciliavit et l'on attendrait meme plutot a attiUit qu'h 

 contulit." But the difference between contulit and attulit is excellently shown 

 by Cic. Fam., 10, 5, 1, itaque commemoratio tua patcrnae necessitudinis bene- 

 volentiaeque eius quam crga me a pueritia contulisses, ccterarumqiie rerum . . . 

 incredibilem mihi lactitiam attulerunt. However, Mortet is supporting a 

 different translation for our passage, of which I shall speak later (p. 165). 



39 The nearest is 159, 12, quibus fclicitas maximum summumque contulit 

 munus, where we have the dative instead of in and the accusative. Else- 





