Belcher. — The Middle Voice in Latin. 17 



Plaut., Frag, apud Scholiastem. 



Anus haec in pellis periculum protendikir . 



This old woman is swelling out to the peril of her skin."''' 



Cf . passage quoted in Lewis and Short, s.v. prester : quern 

 percusserit distendiUir, euormique corpulentia necatur ex- 

 tuberatus. The prester is a kind of snake, and whomsoever 

 he strikes swells out, and, expanding, is choked, &c. 



Cf. Ov., Met. i. 43, quoted under tcgi. 



Teri. Lucr., i. 898. 

 Arboribus vicina cacumina summa terentur 

 Inter se. 

 Contiguous tops of tall trees rub together. (Monro.) 



Trahi. 



See Ovid, Met. i. 742, quoted under suvii. 



Vehi. Liv., V. 8. 



Utrimque invehi hostem nuntiaretur. 



Where invehi —^ invehere se, as in 



Liv., xl. 39 ad fin. 



Invehebant se hostes. 



Liv. xxxi. 35, 3. 



Invehentem se effuse hostem. 



In these and similar passages notice that invehi, though 

 clearly equivalent to invehere se, is not quite within the scope 

 or meaning of the expression invehi equo, invehi curru, advehi 

 plaustro (as in Liv., ix. 3, 9), although about these there is a 

 certain reflexive force, riding on a horse, in a coach, in a cart, 

 where the action is done for one's own advantage, as the gram- 

 marians note, s.v. Greek middle voice. The notion of rush- 

 ing advance is well exemplified in 



Liv., ii. 20, 4. 



Exsules ferociter citato agmine invehi. 



The banished men charged with great bravery, &c. 



Cf. also Liv., vi. 12, 10. 



Hence there arises a transference to vehement political 

 attack : cf . 



Liv., iii. 48, 4. 



Appi, primum ignosce patrio dolori, si quid inclementius 

 in te sum invectus. 



Cf. also Liv., i. 50, 3, and iii. 9, 6. Tac, Ann. i. 13. 



Provectus : — 



Liv., XXXV. 48, 11. 



Provectus deinde in maledicta. 



* From this and similar places we may conjecture that Plautus ancl 

 not Dickens wrote The Pickwick Papers. 

 0. 



