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in Xon. 3. 215 : " scientia doceat, quern ad modum in psalterio extendamus nervia." It 

 should be obsened, however, that Gcrlach in his edition of Nonius reads " neivias." 



C. 46. 7 : "ad domus usionem." Cf. Q. Scaevola in A. Gell. 4. 1 : " sed ea potius, 

 quae hujusce generis longae usionis gratia contrahuntur et reconduntur." Varro in 

 Non. 3. 251: "Diogenem litteras scisse, dum lasioni quod satis esset." Cato E. R. 

 38. 4 : " virgas et sarmenta, quae tibi usioni supererunt, in segete comburito." 



C. 47. 4: "Hoc solum vetare ne Jovis potest"; and c. 58. 2: "Curabo, jam tibi 

 Jovis iratus sit." Cf. Yarro de L. L. 7 : "A dissimilibus simUia, ut Juppiter Jovis 

 [genitive] et Jovis [nominative] Jovis." Gell. 5. 12: " Jovem Latini veteres a juvando 

 appellavere: eimdcmque alio vocabulo juncto patrcm dixerunt. Nam quod est in elisis 

 aut immutatis quibusdam Uteris Jupiter, id plenum atque integrum est Jo^ispater." 

 Ennius in Apul. de Deo Socrat. 2. 121 : " Quorum in nxuuero sunt illi duodccim uume- 

 roso situ nominum in duos versus ab Ennio coartati : 



' Juno, Vesta, Minen-a, Ceres, Diana, Venus, Mars, 

 Mercurius, Jovi', Neptunus, Vulcanus, Apollo.' " 



CaecUius and Attius in Priscian. 6. 695 : " Nam Jons nominative quoque casu inveni- 

 tur. Caecilius in epistola: nam novus quidem deus repertus est Jons. Actius in 

 'a-TTivavaifrnxD : Lucifera lampade exiuat Jons arictem." Mythogr. 3, Prooem. : " Vo- 

 catur Jovis sive Juppiter in ae there, Juno in aere, Diana in terra." 



C. 51. 3: "tamquam vasum aeneum." Cf. Plaut. Trucul. 1. 1. 33: "aut aliquod 

 vasAm argenteum, Aut aliquod vasum ahcnum." Fab. Pictor. in Non. 15. 544: "aquam 

 manibus pedibusque dato, polybrum sinistra manu teneto, dextera vasum cum aqua." 

 Cato in Gell. 13. 23 : " Neque mihi aedificatio neque vasum neque vestimentum ullum 

 est manu pretiosum neque pretiosus servus neque ancUla est." But even if we had not 

 the testimony of these writers, the circumstance that the classical language retained the 

 plural of the second declension (cf Pliu. Nat. Hist. 33. 11. 53. 148, "siquidem Lucius 

 Scipio in triumj)ho transtulit argenti caelati pondo MCCCC et vasorum aureoriun 

 pondo MD") would sufl&ciently prove the early existence of the foiTu " vasum." There 

 seems to be no authority, however, for the masculine " vasus," which occurs in c. 57. 8, 

 " vasus fictnis." 



C. 57. 8: "lorus in aqua." Cf Apul. Metam.. 3. 13. 197: " Et cum dicto lorum 

 quempiam sinu suo depromit"; and 14. 198: "Omnium quidem uequissimus audacissi- 

 musque lorus iste." Schol. ad Juvenal. 6. 480 : " Scutica, lorus latus, corium non con- 

 fectum." These are the only passages, so far as I know, in which "lorus" occvu-s; nor 

 should I attach any importance to the two instances in Apulejus, were it not that his 

 weU-known partiality for old-fashioned forms, especially those of Plautus, rendered 



