Belchek. — The Middle Voice in Latiyi. 7 



Virg., Aen. iii. 275. 

 Et formidatus uautis aperitiir Apollo. 

 " Comes into sight " (Conington). 



Armari. Aen. vii. 506. 

 Hie torre armatus obusto. 

 He, arming himself with a charred brand. 

 Cf. also C., G. iv. 32. Caesar bids the remaining cohorts 

 to arm tliemselves (reliquas cohortes armari). 

 C, B.C. i. 28. Milites armari jubet. 

 Liv., iv. 33, 6. Utraque acies armatur igni. 

 Obviously here the troops are bidden to arm themselves, 

 or actually arm themselves with torches. 



Cingi. Liv., V. 46. 

 Gabino cinctu cinctus. 

 Having girded himself in the Gabine method. 



Virg., G. iii. 4G. 

 Accingar dicere pugnas Caesaris. 



I will gird myself to sing of Caesar's battles. (Cf. also ^n. 

 iv. 493.) 



Compare with this a passage in which se is used with the 

 active voice. 



Virg., Aen. i. 210. 



Illi se praedae accingunt. 



Cf. also Liv. i. 47 : Quin accingeris ? And Virg., Aen. vii. 

 640; Ter., Ph. 318. 



Plaut., B. 429. 



Cincticnlo 2^'raecinctus in sella aput magistrum sedisse. 



(L. and S. read here adsidere.) 



Praecinchis may mean " having tucked up into a knot in 

 front." The prsecincture is a way of tucking up a flowing 

 gown into a girdle so as to have the knot in front. (Cf. Hot- 

 tenroth : Le Costume, pi. 47, 11.) 



Ovid., Met. i. 699. 

 Pan videt banc, pinuque caput praecinctus acuta. 

 Having crowned his head with a coronal of pine-needles. 



Hor,, Sat. ii. 8, 70. 

 Praecincti rectepueri. 

 There are other instances in Lewis and Short, s.v. 



-clinari. C£es., G. vi. 27. 



His sunt arbores pro cubilibus : ad eas se a2)plicant, atque 

 ita pavillum modo rcclinatae quietem capiunt. . . . Hue 

 qu.um se consuetudine reclinavertmt, &c. 



Here we have three reflexives under two difl'erent forms. 



