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Liv., V. 13, 12. 



Nec ita multo post jam palantes veluti forte ohlati popula- 

 tores Capenatis agri reliquias pugnae absnmpsere. 



And not long after the foragers, that wasted the lands of 

 the Capenates, as they ranged abroad here and there, encoun- 

 tered the residue and remnant of this battail. (Phil. Holland.) 



Liv., i.K. 31, 7. 

 Transfugae agrestes . . . ohlati. 



Liv., ii. 14, 8. 

 Inermes et fortuna et specie supplicum delati snnt. 

 Were fain to trudge to Eome. (Phil. Holland.) So also 

 Liv., V. 45, 3. 



Tac, Ann. ii. 17. 



Simul pedestris acies infertur. 



Liv., xxii. 55, 9. 

 Simul latebras eorum mrpvoVido, jjraeterlata acies est. 

 Cf. also Caes., G. vi. 42 ad fin. Virg., Aen. vii. 217 : ajferi- 

 mnr. Lucr., i. 207. 



Flecti. Tac, Ann. i. IG. 

 A.\xt flcxo in vesperam die. 



At nightfall ; as dayliglit turns to eventide. Cf. Lewis and 

 Short, s.v. 



Frangi. Lucr. iii. 155. 

 Corpore ; et infrimji linguam vocemque aboriri. 

 The tongue falter, the voice die away. (Monro.) 

 Cf. Kafi fjih' yXwcrcra eayc. 



Fundi. Tac, Ann. i. 23. 

 Alii ad quaerendum corpus effunderentur. 



Tac, Ann. i. 11. 

 At patres in questus, lacrimas, vota effundi. 



Caes. G. vi. 26. 



Ab ejus summo sicut palmae, rami quam late diffundimtur. 



In these passages the reflexive force of the verb is very 



clear : they scatter about to search for the body ; they dissolve 



into tears and plaints ; the horns spread themselves out like 



palm-branches. 



Virg., Georg. ii. 510. 



Gaudent^cj/wsi sanguine fratrum. 



They revel as they w'allow in their kinsmen's blood. 



Cf. also Caes., G. vi. 37; Ovid, Met. i. 36, dijfundi ; Ovid, 

 Met. i. 484, suffunditur ; Virg., Aen. vi. 307, fnndnntur ; 

 Lucr,, i. 39; Lucr., i. 353; Ovid, Fast. i. 215. So cruore 

 suffunduntur oculi — the eyes become bloodshot. Lacrimis 



