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12. 1 : " praesertim si ista, qiiam ad praebeudum lactem adhibebitis, aut serva aut ser- 

 vilis est." 



C. 39. 5 : " coelus hie"; and c. 45. 3 : " ubique medius coeliis est." The early exist- 

 ence of the form " coelus '" might, indeed, be inferred from the plural " coeli," which 

 was, since Lucretius, the only received form of the plural ; but we have positive evi- 

 dence of the fact. C£ Ennius, in Non. 3. 197, and in Charis. 1. 35 : "fortis Romani, 

 quamquam coelus profundus." 



C. 39. 5 : " cornum acutum." Besides the received form, " comu," we find in many 

 passages in early and good writers the form " cornus," and in a few, " cornum." Cf. 

 Ovid. Metam. 2. 874 : " et dextra cornum tenet" ; and 5. 383 : " Oppositoque genu cur- 

 vavit flexUe cornum." The language of Priscianus (Lib. VI. p. 685) confirms the 

 correctness of this reading in both places. Varro de E-. R. 3. 9. 14: "Circum caveas 

 eorum incendendum cornum cervinum, ne quae serpens accedat ; quarimi bestiarum ex 

 odore solent interire." An instance occurring in the work of Scribonius Largus De- 

 signatianus De Compositione Medicamentorum (141), — "Ad lumbricos satis commode 

 facit et sandonica herba, quae nimc viget, et cornum cervinum limatum lima lignaria," — 

 is of less weight, because doubts are entertained as to the age of that work in the form 

 in which we now possess it. Scribonius himself was the physician of the Emperor 

 Claudius, but the Latmity of his work is so bad, that some suppose he wrote in Greek, 

 and that the work as it now exists was a later translation. But be this as it may, 

 the passage in Scribonius, if it does not prove the correctness, proves the continued 

 existence, of the form " cornum." 



C. 42. 5: "At plures medici ilium perdiderunt, imo magis mains fatus " ; c. 71. 1: 

 " etiamsi illos mains fatus oppresserit " ; and c. 77. 2: "Hoc mihi dicit fatus mens." 

 Cf Grut. Inscr. 661, No. 6 : " Fructum Alium Meritorum Suor. Reportare Fatus Mains 

 Xegavit "' ; and 663, No. 5 : " Vii'ginem Eripuit Fatus Mains Destituisti VitUla Mea 

 Miseram Mammam Tuam." 



C. 44. 8 : " nee schemas loquebatur sed directum, cum ageret." Cf Plaut. Amphit. 

 prol. 116: "Ne hunc ornatum vos meum admiremini, Quod ego hue processi sic cum 

 servHi schema." Id. Pers. 4. 2. 2 : " Tiara ut lepidam lepide condccorat schemam." 

 Priscian. 6. 679: "Haec tamen antiquissimi secundum primam declinationem saepe 

 protulerunt et generis feminini." 



C. 45. 9: "itaque quamdiu Aixerit, habebit stigmam"; and c. 69. 1: "at curabo, 

 stigmam habeat." As this form occurs only in these two places, it might be enumer- 

 ated among the solecisms, were it not for the analogy of "schema" and other words. 



C. 45. 11 : "Tertiarius mortuus pro mortuo, qui habuit ner^ia praecisa." Cf Varro 



