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Bacch. 2. 3. 77 : " Xe ille hercle milii sit multo tanto carior, Si me illoc auro tanto 

 cu'cumduxerit. " 



C. 39. 10 : " lauiones." Cf. Flav. Cap. de Orthographia (Putsch), p. 224.5 : " Hie 

 lanius nomen est : verbum auteni lanio, lanias ; at dixerunt tamen et lanio in nomine." 



C. 47. 10 : "in coenam fieri." Cf. Mart. 13. 54 : " Cerretana mihi fiet, vel missa licebit 

 De Menapis: lauti de petasone vorent" Val. Max. 8. 1. 8: "Non supprimenda illius 

 quoque damnatio, qui pueruli sui nimio amore correptus, rogatus ab eo ruri, ut omasum 

 in coenam fieri juberet, cum bubulae camis in propinquo emendae nulla facultas esset, 

 domito bove occiso desiderium ejus explevit." 



C. 47. 12: "Emtitius." Cf. Varro de E. R 3. 2. 12: " et He aprum glans cum 

 pascit emtitia, facit pinguem ; illic gratuita exilem." 



C. 50. 5: "nesapium." Cf. Q. Ter. Scamus de Ortliogr. p. 2251: "Xe pro non 

 positum est apud antiques; significat ncfrendes porcos [al. sic nefrendes porci], qui 

 sunt sine dentibus, id est, qui fabam frendere non possunt ; nesapius, qui non sapit ; ita 

 et nescio, non scio." — « Scelio," or " scellio." Cf. Plin. Nat. Hist. 30. 10. 27. 89 : 

 " Operae pretium est scire, quomodo praeripiatur, cum exuitur, membrana hiberna, alias 

 devoranti eam, quoniam nullum animal fraudulentius invidere homini tradunt, inde 

 stellionum nomine in maledictum translate." Apul. Metam. 5. 30. 376 : " Sed nunc 

 irrisui habita quid agam ? quo me conferam 1 quibus modis stellionem istum cohibe- 

 am?" Fest. (ed. Miiller) p. 313: " Stelionem genus aiunt lacertae, quod Yerrius 

 dictum ait, quia virus instillet cibo, potius quam, ut putant abi [ali], a stellarum simili- 

 tudine, quia varium est." If the passages in Pliny and Apuleius left any doubt of the 

 antiquity of this word, that in Festus, who speaks of Verrius's attempt at explaining 

 its etjTuology, settles the question. 



C. 50. 6: " statuncula." Cf. Ael. Donat. Edit. Secunda (ed. Putsch, p. 1747): » Sunt 

 dimiuutiva, quae non servant genera, quae ex nominibus primae positionis acceperimt, 

 ut scutum scutella, pistrinum pistrella, canis canicula, rana ranunculus, statua statuncu- 

 lus." According to this statement of Donatus, we should read " statunculos," unless 

 there was a form " statunculum," as well as " statunculus." 



C. 51. 5 : " condituram vitreorum." Isidorus, in his account of the occurrence (Orig. 

 16. 15), attributes to Tiberius the same expression : " Hoc facto Caesar dixit artifici, 

 Numquid alius scit hanc condituram vitrorum ? " The account of Isidorus differs, in 

 other respects, somewhat from that of Peti'Onius, so that we are not justified in suppos- 

 ing that Isidorus borrowed his expression from Petronius. If so, Petronius may be 

 considered as emi)loying a term used probably before him by others in the same signifi- 

 cation. In the sense of " seasoning," the word is used by Sen. de Ira, 3. 15, and by 

 Columella repeatedly. 



