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Plin. N. H. 18, 140 ; 36, 7. Thus Vitruvius 77, 9 : uti lata et longa sit 

 columnae crassitudinis unius et dimidiae ; cf. 77, 18; 100, 24; 94, 14; 

 205, 20 ; 207, 25, etc. But instead of this genitivus qualitatis Vitruvius 

 also uses the ablative; cf. 39, 1 : longum sesquipede, latum pede ; 94, 28: 

 crassitudines extenuentur his rationibus uti si octava parte erunt quae sunt 

 in f route, hae fiant x parte.' — To these examples of the ablative may be 

 added 31 170, 1 : alte circiter pedibus tribus ; 99, 24 : altae dimidia parte ; 

 99, 26: altam suae crassitudinis dimidia parte. But they cannot be taken 

 as evidence of very late authorship, for Columella has this ablative in 

 5, 9, 3 : digitis quatuor alte; Arb. 1, 6: tribus pedibus alte; and both 

 the genitive and ablative in 3, 13, 5 : quidam dupondio et dodrante altum 

 sulcum, latum pedum quinque faciunt. 



Coming next to locative constructions, Ussiug says : ' A similar waver- 

 ing is found in the local determinations. Country names are put in the 

 ablative without prepositions, as 43, 27: Achaia Asia; 134, 14: aliter 

 Aegypto, aliter Hispania, non eodem modo Ponto ; 182, 3: Ponto et 

 Gallia; 176, 15 ff., frequently. Even the genitive appears, 59, 3: 

 Cretae et Africae. Names of towns in the ablative instead of the geni- 

 tive, 49, 8: Arretio ; 101, 22: Sunio ; 195, 19: Zacyntho. This har- 

 monizes with the use of eo instead of ibi, 120, 16: eo tragici et comici 

 adores in scaena peragunt ; 284, 11 : arboribus excisis eoque conlocatis. 

 (If the same is found in Cicero's Ep. ad Brutum 1, 2, 1, it may as well 

 be considered as a testimony against the genuineness of these epistles).' 

 — A full collection of Vitruvius's use of country names in the ablative 

 without a preposition has been published by Nohl in his Analecta Vitru- 

 viana, p. 9. From this it appears that 21 names are thus used. 32 This 

 is a large number, but the usage itself cannot be accepted as proof of late 

 authorship because we find in Virgil Ponto (Eel. 8, 95 f.), Latio (A. 1, 

 265; 6, 67), Lycia (A. 12, 344), Italia (A. 1, 263), and in Pliny His- 

 pania (N. H. 8, 226), and Aegypto (13, 56; 18, 123; 19, 79).33 For 

 the rest, Vitruvius uses also the regular construction of in with the ab- 



31 It is the more necessary to present these additional cases because the two 

 which Ussing cites are not very convincing. The second lacks any adjective like 

 longus, latus, or (d/us, and is therefore an ordinary genitive of quality ; the first is 

 easily emended away, as pede in 278, 7, is now emended to pedem, and as in Plin. 

 .35, 171 longum sesquipedem is now read instead of the older reading sesquipede of 

 the inferior manuscripts. 



32 For Lucania, however (198, 9), Lucanis of the manuscripts should be retained ; 

 see my note in Harvard Studies in Classical Philolvtjy, 17, p. 6. 



33 Cf. Funaioli, Arckio, 13, 327 ff. 



