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demonstrate possint." Cic. in Verr. 1. 10. 30 : " P. Sulpieius, judex tiistis et integer, 

 magistratiini ineat oportet Non. Decembribus." Cic. de Fin. 2. 26. 85 : " Me ipsiim 

 igitur ames oportet, non mea, si veri amici futuri sumus." Cic. Parad. 6. 1. -±3 : " Ani- 

 mus oportet tuus te judicet divitem non hominum sermo." Cic. de E,. P. 6. 23. 25 

 (Somn. Scip. 7} : " suis te oportet illecebris ipsa virtus trahat ad verum decus." 



C. 67. 5: "Est te, inquit, viderel" "Est," in the sense of "licet," is frequent in 

 good writers. C£ Hor. Ep. 1. 1. 32: "Est quadam prodire tenus, si non datiu- ultra." 

 Ter. Adel. 5. 1. 42: "scire est liberum Ingenium atque animimi." Tac. Annal. 16. 3-4: 

 " ut conjectare erat intentione voltus et auditis." 



C. 70. 2 : " Yolueiis : de bulba faciet piscem." C£ Cic. in Yerr. 2. 3. 2. 4 : " Em-em 

 aliquem aut rapacem accusaiis ? vitanda tibi semper erit omnis avaritiae suspicio." Ter. 

 Phorm. 2. 3. 35 : "Unum cognoris, omnes noris." Hor. Serm. 2. 3. 292: "Casus medi- 

 cusve levarit Aegrum ex praecipiti, mater delii'a necabit In gelida fixuni ripa, febiimque 

 reducet. ' 



C. 71. 9 ; " scis enim, quod epxilum dedi, binos denarios." The use of " quod" after 

 " scio," and other verbs of a similar meaning, is not at once to be declared a solecism, 

 because it can be shown that the best writers made a nice distinction between the accu- 

 sative with the infinitive and "quod" with the subjimctive. (See Eeisig's Lateinische 

 Sprachwissenschaft, § 331). Cf. Cic. de Fin. 5. 11. 30: "in nobismet autem ipsis intel- 

 ligi qui potest, quod* propter quampiam rem, verbi gratia propter voluptatem, nos 

 amemus." Plant. Asin. 1. 1. 38: "Equidem scio jam, filius quod amet meus Istanc 

 meretricem e proxumo Philenium." Phaedr. 5. 2. 12: "Ego, qui sum expertus, quan- 

 tis fugias wibus, vScio, quodf -siituti non sit credendum tuae." Liv. 3. 52: " scitiu-os, 

 quod sine restituta potestate redigi in concordiam res nequeant." Even if the passages 

 from Cicero and Phfedrus, on account of the uncertainty of the text, be rejected, those 

 from Plautus and Livy prove the existence of this pecidiar mode of expression; and 

 the uupropriety of Trimalchio's language consists, therefore, not in the use of "quod" 

 after " scio," but in connecting with it the verb in the indicative. It is otherwise with 

 " quod" after " dico," c. 46. 4, " et dixi, quod mustela comedit," which is unhesitatingly 

 to be considered a Grecism. 



C. 71. 11: "et amphoras copiosas gypsatas, ne effluant vinimi"; a Grecism. Cf 

 Claud, in Prob. et Olybr. cons. 51: "Quantum stagna Tagi rudibus stillantia venis 

 Efiiuxere decus." 



This somewhat minute examination of the grammatical forms and combinations used 



* Orelli reads, " in nobismet autem ipsis ne intelligi quidem, ut propter aliam quampiam rem," etc. 

 t Others read " quam." 



