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"in praesentiarum" (Corn. Nep. Hannib. 6) be considered an authority; "larifuga," 

 a word worthy of the pen of Plantus ; " occupo " ; — " gavidimonium," formed like 

 " tristimonium" ; — " venerarius " ; "ccraginare" or " ecreginare " ; "apoculare" or " abo- 

 culare"; "laura"; "exopmasscnt" or "exopinissent"; — " excatarassare " or " excata- 

 rizare" ; — " strabonus" ; — " vitalis lectus " ; — " poenitentia," " the act repented of" ; 

 "incretare"; "lapidare"; — "fastum facere," iii the sense of " contemnere " ; — "suc- 

 cosus," in the sense of "wealthy" ; " improperare," which Burmann calls a "verbuni 

 cadentis Latinitatis " ; but, besides the uncertainty of the text, it is to be observed that 

 Du Cange, although he enumerates "improperanter" and " improperium," docs not 

 mention "impropero"; "ad se facere"; — " lanistitius " ; " calidi cerebri"; "ferrum 

 bonum," for "gladiator bonus"; " sestertiarius " ; — "Agaga"; "excaecare," in the 

 phrase of Circe, " numquid ab aliquo naturali vitio formam meam excaeco," — " do I, 

 through some natural blemish or defect, impair the effect of my beauty T' Similar, 

 although not the same, is the use of the word in Ovid, ex Pont. 4. 2. 17: " ScUicet ut 

 limus venas excaecat in undis, Laesaque suppresso fonte resistit aqua ; Pectora sic mea 

 sunt limo vitiata malorum." 



The remaining expressions are, indeed, of infrequent occurrence, but still supported 

 by the authority of other writers. 



C. 39. 3 : " Rogo, me putatis ilia coena esse contentum, quam in theca repositorii 

 videratisT' Cf Plant. Baccli. 2. 2. 28 : " Ecquidnam meminit Mnesilochi 1 Pi. Rogas 1 

 Imo unice unum plurimi pendit." Ter. Phonn. 4. 1. 8: "Pol me detinuit morbus. 

 D. Undel aut qui"? C Rogas 1 Senectus ipsa est morbus." Tor. Andr. 1. 2. 13: 

 " D. Qua de re 1 8. Rogas 1 Meum gnatum rumor est amare." 



C. 39. 5, " scholastici," and c. 61. 4, " scholasticos." Cf De Orat. Dial. 35: "At 

 nunc adolescentuli nostri deducuntur in scenas scholasticorum, qui rhetores vocantur." 

 Jul. Capitol. Maxim. Jun. 3 : " Sed timeo, ne soror mea Graecis munditiis erudita bar- 

 barum socerum ferre non possit : quamvis ipse adolescens et pulcher et scholasticus ad 

 Graecas munditias eruditus esse videatur." Quint. 12. 11. 16: " Cognoscere et prae- 

 cepta Vivendi perdiscere et in foro nos experiri potuimus, dum scholastici sumus." 



C. 39. 8 : " et hoc et illoc," for " et hue et illuc." See K. L. Schneider's Grammatik 

 (Vol. I. p. 28), on the relationship of o and u, and Priscian. I. p. 553 (Putsch): "O 

 aliquot Italiae civitates teste Plinio non habebant, sed loco ejus ponebant w, et maxime 

 Umbri et Thusci" ; and p. 554 : " u quoque multis Italiae populis in usu non erat, sed 

 e contrario utebantur o ; unde Romanorum quoque vetustissimi in multis dictionibus 

 loco ejus posuisse inveniuntur." Cf Varr. de L. L. 5.9: " Voca inlicium omneis 

 Quiriteis hoc ad me." Plaut. Merc. 2. 2. 49 : " hoc non voluntas me impulit." Plant. 



