16 Transactions. — Miscellaneous. 



Solvi. Lucr., iii. 330. 

 Extraliere haucl facile est quiii omnia dissolvantur. 

 It is not easy to withdraw . . . without dissolving all alike. 



(Monro.) 



Lucr., i. 764. 



Atque in eas rursum res omnia dissolvnntur. 



Spargi. Tac, Ann. i. 56. 

 Eeliqui omissis pagis vicisque disjyergnntur. 

 The remainder disperse. 



Lucr., i. 309. 

 In parvas igitur partis dispcrgitur umor. 

 The moisture disperses into particles. 



Sterni. Virg., Aen. xi. 87. 



Sternitur et toto projectus corpore terrae. 



The meaning here evidently is that Acoetes, while being 

 led along, keeps throwing himself on the ground, as Heyne 

 rightly takes it. So Conington in loco. 



Cf. common use of stratus for " laying oneself fiat."" Hor., 



Od. i. 1, 22. 



Sumi. Ovid Met. i. 742. 



Contrahitur rictus ; redeunt humerique mauusque ; 

 Ungulaque in quinos dilapsa absumitur ungues. 

 Her great wide mouth contracts, her shoulders and hands 

 return, and each hoof has shrunk and divides into five fingers 



(lit. nails). 



Suspend!. Lucu., iii. lOO. 



Namque papaveris aura suspcnsa levisque. 



Lucr., Y. 1096. 



Suspensi teneros imitantur dentibus haustus. 



With lightly-closing teeth they make a feint of swallowing 



them. (Monro.) 



Hor., Sat. i. 6, 74. 



Laevo suspe)isi loculos tabulamque lacerto. 

 Having hung bag and slate on the left arm. 



Tegi. Tac, Ann. ii. 13. 

 Contectus humeros ferina pelle adit castrorum vias. 



Ov., Met. i. 43. 

 Jussit et extendi campos, subsidere valles, 

 Fronde tegi silvas, lapidosos surgere montes. 

 He bad also the plains to extend, the vales to sink, the 

 woods to take their leafy covering, the rocky mountains rise. 



Tendi. 



Cf. Lewis and Short, s.v. extendere, who mark the verb 

 as "middle." 



