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and adjectives, and Greek words quoted as such, like id aftarov vocitari 

 iusserunt). Of these 973 words, 101 are adopted from Greek, including 

 of course forms of such words as athleta, barbarus, basilica, camera, 

 centauries, chorda, which were fully naturalized in the Latin of the clas- 

 sical period. Now of these 101 words it appears that 71 are used by 

 Vitruvius with Latin terminations. Of the remaining thirty, eighteen 

 are technical terms belonging to the vocabulary of architecture, and hence 

 naturally Greek, such as amphithalamos (nom.), baseos (gen.), cathetoe 

 (nom.). This leaves of the 101 words, only twelve uutechnical terms 

 in which Vitruvius employs Greek terminations. They are : acroasin 

 (Cicero and Varro have acroasi), aethera (Cic), agrammatos, amusos, 

 aniatrologetos, arctoe (Cic), arithmeticen, arteriace (Plin., Cels.), asty, 

 abl. (Ter. and Nepos have astu), catacecaumeniten (Plin. has catacecau- 

 menitae), colossicotera, cratera, ace. (Virg., Ov.). Therefore, of the 101 

 words only seven are found in Vitruvius with Greek terminations which 

 are not similarly found in other authors, the latest of whom is Pliny, and 

 these seven are all unusual words, all but one in fact (acroasis) making 

 their appearance in Latin for the first time in Vitruvius. This examina- 

 tion, therefore, incomplete as it is, may probably serve to show that Hel- 

 lenisms in terminations are no more common in Vitruvius than in writers 

 of the classical period. 



' He uses Greek words not only when he may possibly quote from a 

 Greek source, but also in his own argumentations, and conuected with 

 Greek flexions, as 132, 27 : philologis et philotechnis rebus; 247, 19: 

 collossicotera ; 8, 14: aniatrologetos. He does not even seem afraid of 

 -ois instead of -is, as pentadorois, 39, 7.' — In the first of these examples 

 we have a word not found elsewhere, philotechnis. It is not difficult of 

 interpretation and seems a natural term to connect with philologis. To 

 Vitruvius philologia means 'literature' or ' literary studies ' in a wide 

 sense (156, 7 ; 157, 20 ; 203, 14) ; so it did to Cicero (Alt. 2, 17, 1). 

 And just as to Cicero there was within philologia such a thing as t^vo- 

 Xoyia (Att. 4, 16, 3 : religui libri re^voXoytav habent, here used of the 

 technical discussion of statecraft in the latter portion of the De Repiiblica), 

 so to Vitruvius philotechnicae res are the artistic (particularly in his case 

 the architectural) parts of literary pursuits. Thus also we find 4>i\6rexvoc 

 (lovers of art) and <£iA.oo-o<£oi distinguished in Plato Rep. 476 A. The 

 ideas, therefore, which Vitruvius expresses in this passage were not for- 

 eign to the classical period, and the word philotechnis, not occurring 

 elsewhere, cannot be taken as evidence of late authorship. Neither can 

 colossicotera. I am not aware that the positive of this adjective is found 



