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(in Priscian. 8, p. 801 : "bona gratia parvi ut faciatur"}. Of the second irregularity, a 

 common Grecism, of connecting the singular of the ^erb with a plural neuter noun, 

 I find but one other instance quoted, Ter. Eun. Prol. 17 : " Habeo alia multa, nunc quae 

 condonabitur." But as this passage of Terence is susceptible of another and better 

 exjilanation, namelj', "with regard to which he wUl be pardoned," " quae" being the 

 Greek accusative, and not the nominative, I am constrained to consider the phrase 

 "faciatur triclinia" as a bold Grecism of Trimalchio's, unless in his ignorance he took 

 " triclinia" to be a noun of the first declension. 



C. 76. 9 : " et coei)i libertos foenerare." Cf Ter. Adel. 2. 2. 9 : " Metuisti, si nunc 

 de tuo jure concessisses paululum atque Adulescenti esses morigeratus, homiuum homo 

 stultissime, Ne non tibi istuc foeneraret." 



C. 77. 5: "Ad summa, Scaui-us, cum hue venit, nusquam mavoluit hospitari." We 

 find several analogous forms of other tenses, so that it is not probable that this " mavo- 

 luit" is an invention of Trimalchio's. Cf. Plant, Poen. 1. 2. 91 : " Bono ingenio me esse 

 ornatam quam aiu'O multo mavolo " ; and 93 : " Bonam ego quam beatam me esse nimio 

 did mavolo." Plaut. Asin. 1. 1. 106 : " Eidem homini, si quid recte curatum velis, 

 Mandes, morui sese misere mavolet." Plaut. True. 4. 2. 33 : " Mortuum hercle me, 

 quam id patiar, mavelim." Naevdus in Fest. sub stuprum : " Seseque ii perire mavolunt 

 ibidem quam cum stupro redii'e ad sues popularis." 



C. 47. 4 : " Hoc solum vetare ne Jovis potest." Another instance of this peculiar use 

 of "ne," in the sense of "ne . . . quidem," occurs in the generally much more correct 

 language of Encolpius, c. 9. 6 : " Quid dicis inquam, muliebris patientiae scortum, 

 cujus ne spiritus purus est?" Instances of this omission of "quidem," or, as some 

 think, of the emphatic meaning of " ne," which can dispense with the addition of " qui- 

 dem," occur in the best writers. Cf Cic. in Cat. 2. 4. 8 : " Nemo, non mode Romae scd 

 ne ullo in angulo totius Italiae, oppressus acre alieno fuit, quem non ad hoc incredibile 

 sceleris foedus adsciverit." Cn. Pompeius Magnus L. Domitio, in Cic. ad Attic. 8. 12. 

 D. 2 : " et si convenirent, quantum iis committendum sit, qui inter se ne noti sunt, 

 contra veteranas legiones, non te praeterit." Liv. 44. 36 : " neque enim ne his cunctatio- 

 nem aperuerat suam."* Cic. in Verr. 3. 84. 195 : " sin, ut plerique faciunt, in quo etiam 

 erat aliquis quaestus, sed is honestus atque concessus, frumentum, quoniam villus erat, 

 ne emisses ; sumpsisses id nummorum, quod tibi senatus celiac nomine conccsscrat." -f 



* It should not be overlooked, however, tliat there is some diversity of reading in these three passages. 

 Orelli reads, in the first, " sed nee ullo," and in the second, " qui inter se ne noti quidem sunt." Crevier 

 and Drakenborch, without authority of manuscripts, adopt in the passage of Livy a conjectural emendation, 

 " ne his quidem." 



t There being no difference of reading in this, as in the preceding passages, the text may be assumed to 



