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connectere." — C. 34. 9: " catenatio." Cf. Vitmv. 2. 9. 11: "Ulmus vcro et fraxinus 

 .... in commissuris et in coagmentationibus ab lentitudine firmas recipiunt catenatio- 

 nes." Vitniv. 10. 1. 2: " Scansoria ratio non arte sed audacia gloriatur ; ea catenatio- 

 nibus ct [transversariis et] plexis coUigationibus et erismatorum fulturis continetixr." 



C. 36. 4: "Damns omnes plausum." Cf. Cic. Cato, 18. 64: "Quibus cum a cuncto 

 consessu plausus esset multiplex datus, dixisse ex iis quendam," etc. 



C. 37. 1, "longe arcessere fabulas coepi," and c. 139. 3, "arcessito sermone." Cf. Cic. 

 Top. 9. 39 : " Cum autem a genere ducetur argumentum, non erit necesse id usque a 

 capite arcessere." 



C. 40. 1: " Subsessoresque." C£ Serv. ad Virg. Aen. 11. 268: "subsessores dicun- 

 tur, qui in insidiis tauros interimunt." 



C. 41. 8: "puerum sane perbasiamus " ; "sane" in the sense of "valde." Cf Plant. 

 Most. 3. 2. 73 : " Nam sibi laudavisse hasce ait architectonem Nescio quern esse aedifi- 

 catas has sane bene." Cic. de Orat. 2. 66. 264 : " in quibus est narratio ; res sane diffi- 

 cilis." Cic. in Verr. 2. 17. 42: " Interea sane perturbatus et ipse et ejus amici et con- 

 siliarii moleste ferre coeperunt." 



C. 47. 7 : " et subinde castigamus crebris potiunculis risum." Cf. Cic. Tusc. 2. 21. 50 : 

 " Videsne, ut obmutuerit non sedatus corporis sed castigatus animi dolor 1 " 



C. 50. 3: " Exspectabam, ut pro reliqua insolentia diceret." Cf Caes. B. C. 1. 6: 

 " neque exspectant, quod superioribus annis acciderat, ut de eorum imperio ad populum 

 feratur." 



C. 52. 12: "Nihil autem tarn inaequale erat." Cf Hor. Sat. 2. 7. 10: " Vixit inae- 

 qualis, clavum ut mutaret in horas." 



C. 54. 1 : " Cum maxime haec dicente Gaio" ; " cum maximc" in the sense of "just." 

 Cf. Cic. de Harusp. Resp. 15. 32: " Verumtamen antiqua negligimus; etiam ea neglige- 

 mus, quae fiunt cum maxime, quae videmusl" Cic. pro Cluent. 5. 12: "quae multos 

 jam annos et nunc cum maxime filium inteifectum cupit." Ter. Andr. 5. 1. 4: " Imo 

 enim nunc cum maxime abs te postulo atque oro, Chreme." Ter. Heaut. 4. 3. 40: 

 " atqui cum maxime Volo te dare operam, ut fiat." Piin. Ep. 10. 61. (58.) 1 : " ob hoc 

 praecipue, quod est multo depressior opere eo, quod cum maxime surgit." — C. 54. 3 : 

 "Nam puer quidem." In this elliptical sense,* "nam" occrtrs .several times in the 



* Hand, in his Tursellinus (Vol. II. p. 376 and Vol. IV. p. 12), objects, and to some extent justly, to the 

 term elliptical. It is certainly true that the Eoman, in such sentences, was not aware of an ellipsis, — the sen- 

 tence was to him complete ; but most, perhaps all modern languages, not having an equivalent for " nam " 

 and "enim" in this peculiar sense, must have recourse to an ellipsis in order to explain or render the 

 full sense of such sentences. This will be easily seen by taking in connection the two sentences which are 



