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"venerarias"; c. 61. 9, " ecraginavi" ; c. 62. 1, " scruta scita" ; c. 62. 3, " Apoculamus" 

 (used also by Habinnas, c. 67. 3); c. 62. 4, "ad stelas facere" and " cantabundus " ; 

 c. 62. 10, "lauram," "animam ebullivi," and " bifurcum" ; c. 62. 11, "ambularem" ; 

 c. 62. 14, " exopinassent." — Habinnas uses, c. 65. 10, "mantissam"; c. 66. 5, "inte- 

 stina sua vomuit"; c. 66. 7, " iraprobiter " ; c. 67. 10, "excatarassasti"; c. 68. 8, "re- 

 cutitus" and " strabonus." — Seleucus uses, c. 42. 6, " vitali lecto." — Giton uses, c. 91. 

 2, "poeuitentiam"; c. 94 11, " praecipitia " ; c. 101. 8, « in ultimis esse" ; c. 102. 1-i, 

 "increta"; c. 102. 15, "ferrumine" ; c. 114. 11, "lapidabit." Giton betrays so many 

 marks of culture and refinement, that perhaps his peculiarities of speech should not be 

 enumerated among those of the uneducated. — One of Tiimalchio's guests, not mentioned 

 byname, uses, c. 38. 1, " lacte gallinaceum" ; c. 38. 6, "succosi"; c. 38. 11, "imin-o- 

 pero" ; c. 38. 12, " Sestertium suum vidit" ; " male vacillavit" ; " qui omnia ad se fece- 

 runt" ; c. 38. 16, " ilium conturbare" ; " auctionem proscripsit." — Echion uses, c. 45. 4, 

 "lanistitia"; c. 45. 5, " calidi cerebri"; c. 45. 6, "ferrum bonum"; c. 45. 8, " sester- 

 tiarius" ; c. 45. 9, "exitum facturam." — Scintilla uses, c. 69. 1, " Agaga." — A peasant 

 uses, c. 116. 8, " necessitudiues." — Chrysis uses, c. 126. 7, "nota"; c. 131. 3, "fasto- 

 se." — Circe uses, c. 128. 3, "excaeco." 



Some of these expressions are unsupported by the authority of any writer, early or 

 late, and therefore, in this respect at least, throw no light on the question of the age of 

 Petronius. But while they consequently appear to us, with our limited remains of the 

 popular language, as the peculiarities of the persons who use them, most of them, if not 

 all, have the appearance of being taken from the li\ing language of the people, and are 

 remarkable for that Aigor and expressiveness which characterize the older language of 

 the Komans. To this class belong " absentivus" ; " expudoratus" ; " suae rei causa fa- 

 cere" for "cacare"; " desomnis," analogous to " dei^lumis " (cf Plm. Nat. Hist. 10.24. 

 34. 70, "inventaeque jam sunt ibi nudae atque deplumes"); "martiolus" (John of 

 Salisbury, De Nug. Curial. 4. 5, has the same reading); "scordalia," undoubtedly from 

 " scordalus," which occurs in other writers as well as in Petronius (c£, besides c. 95. 7, 

 Sen. Ep. 83. 11, " Tillius Cimber et nimius erat in ^dno et scordalus") ; " omnium nume- 

 rum," the same as " omnes numeros habere" (c£ Cic. de Offic. 3. 3. 11) ; " tristimonium " ; 

 "manuciolum"; "vavato"; "canturu-e"; "debatuere" in the sense of " subagitare " ; 

 "barbatoriam facere"; "micarius"; "buccinus," undoubtedly connected with "bucci- 

 na" and "buccino"; " artisellium " ; " fulcipedia " ; " amasiuncula" ; "sterteia"; " corro- 

 tundare"; "Graeculio"; "ad summa"; "vitalia," unless, in Sen. Ep. 99. 20, "quam 

 multis vitalia emimtur" should prove to be the correct reading; "gustus" in the sense 

 - of " specimen " ; — " dignitosus " ; " de praesentiarum," unless the similar expression 



