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C. 51. 6: "decollari." Cf. Fenestella in Diomed. 1 (Putsch, p. 361): "Qiiemadmo- 

 dum Caesar a piratis captus sit, iitque eos ipse postea ceperit et decoUaverit." 



C. 63. 5 : " valde audaculum." Cf. Fest. 23 (Miiller, p. 27) : " Audax diminutivuin 

 facit aiidaculus." Gell. 5. 21 : " reprehensor audaculus vcrborum." 



C. 63. 8: " stramentitium vavatonem." Cf. Auct. B. Hisp. 16: "ad casas, quae stra- 

 mentitiae ab nostris hibernorum causa aedificatae erant." 



C. 71. 3: "et haec omuia publico." The earliest writers, who use this word in the 

 sense of " to publish, to make known," are Tacit. Ann. 16. 4 : " mox flagitante vulgo, ut 

 omnia studia sua publicaret (haec enim verba dixere), ingreditur theatrum" ; and Plin. 

 Ep. 1.1: " Frequenter hortatus es, ut epistolas, si quas paullo accuratius scripsissem, 

 colligerem publicaremque." The very manner in which Tacitus states the matter seems 

 to indicate that the expression " studia publicare " was a vulgarism ; and Pliny seems 

 to use the expression " publicare " because he quotes the language of his friend Septicius 

 OaruS; rather than from his own choice. This instance illustrates an important fact in 

 the development of language, that an expression origiuaUy without doubt a vrdgarism 

 — as "publicare," used by Trimalchio — is after a time introduced into the written 

 language, at first hesitatingly and with an apology, as Tacitus seems to do, until with- 

 out challenge it maintains its place. 



C. 73. 6: "praefiscmi." Cf. Fl. Sos. Charis. 2. 165: " Titinnius in Setina : Paula 

 mea, amabo, pol tu ad laudem addito, Praefiscini, ne puella fascinetur" ; 166: "Afi-a- 

 nius in Consobrinis : Scis habitum ita ut nunc obtinet, praefiscine." Plant. Rud. 2. 5. 4 : 

 "Praefiscine, Satis nequam sum: utpote qui hodie inceperim Amare." Both forms, 

 " praefiscini" and " praefiscine," are indiscriminately used. 



C. 75. 10: "rostrum barbatum." Cf. Plant. Menaech. 1. 1. 13: "Aput mensam 

 plenam tu hominis rostrum deliges." Vai-r. Peripl. in Nonius, 6. 455 : " itaque videas 

 barbato rostro ilium conmentari et unumquodque verbuni statera auraria pendere." 

 Lucil. in Nonius, 6. 455 : " ne designati rostrum praetoris pedesque Spectes." 



C. 76. 2: "patrimonium laticlavium." Cf Val. Max.* 5. 1. 7: "itaque pueriun 

 annulo fibulaque aurea et tunica laticlavia Hispanoque sagulo et ornato equo donatum 

 datis, qui eum prosequerentur, equitibus ad Masinissam remisit." 



C. 76. 9 : " et coepi libertas foenerare." Of the various explanations of this obscure 

 expression I prefer that of Burmanu : " I began to deal in freedmen, but with usury, 

 as I had hitherto dealt in money ; that is, I made freedmen of slaves, but with profit to 

 myself." Cicero uses "fenerari" in this sense with the accusative "beueficiiun" ; Lael. 



* It is now well known that Valerius Maximus, like Velleius Paterculus, belongs to the times of Augustus 

 and Tiberius. 



