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C. 88. 1 : " consulere j)rudentiorem coepi aetates tabularum et quaedam argumenta 

 mihi obsciira"; " coiisvilere " with two accusatives. Cf. Cic. ad Attic. 7. 20. 2: "Nee 

 te id consulo." Plant. Menaech. 4. 3. 26 : " Ibo et consulam banc rem amicos." 



C. 90. 2 : " teli conjectum." Cf. Cic. ad Attic. 4. 3. 2 : " Quinti fratris domus primo 

 fracta conjectu lapidum ex area nostra, deinde inflammata jussu Clodii." Liv. 28. 14: 

 " et jam couflixerant cornua, cum, quod roboris in acie hostium erat, Poeni vetcrani 

 Afrique nondum ad teli conjectum veuissent." — C. 90. 4 : " sanguinem tibi a capita 

 mittam." Cf. Cels. 2. 10 : " sanguinem incisa vena mitti novum non est." — C. 90. 6 : 

 " ne et tecum quoque habeam rixandum toto die." The ablative, frequently used by 

 writers of the silver age to exjiress duration of time, and repeatedly occurruig in Petro- 

 nius, is not entirely without the authority of writers of the best age. Cf. Cic. de Off. 

 3. 2. 8 : " Quod eo magis miror, quia scriptum a discipulo ejus Posidonio est triginta 

 annis vixisse Panaetium, posteaquam illos libros edidisset." This passage of Cicero 

 proves that the departure from the grammatical rule and usage was not a later innova- 

 tion, but that it may have been in common use in the language of conversation even of 

 the educated, as Petronius, Encolpius, Eumolpus, although it Avas not until a later 

 period that it gained a more extended footing in the written language. 



C. 91. 1 : " Scii'es non libenter servire" ; and 3 : " Supprimere ego querelam jubeo" ; 

 c. 93. 4: "et negavit recte facere" ; and c. 99. 2: "daturum tamen operam." To any 

 one familiar with the language of the dramatists, innumerable instances of the omission 

 of the personal pronoun in the construction of the accusative with the infinitive will 

 occur. Cf. Ter. Andr. 1. 5. 46 : " Unum hoc scio esse meritam [sc. earn], ut memor 

 esses sui." Ter. Andr. 3. 2. 37 : " ubi intellexeras Id consilium capere [sc. eas], cur 

 non dixti extemplo PamphiloT' Ter. xVndr. 3. 3. 21: "Ita magnae, ut spercm posse 

 avelli [sc. eum]." Nay, even the higher kinds of composition furnish instances of this 

 negligence. Cf. Cic. pro Eosc. Amer. 22. 61: "confitere hue ea spe venisse [sc. te], 

 quod putares hie latrocinium non judicium futurum." Cic. pro Sulla, 23. 65 : " agra- 

 riae legi, quae tota a me reprehensa et abjecta est, intercessorem fore professus est 

 [sc. se]." — C. 91. 9: " reviviscentem amicitiam." Cf. Cic. ad Fam. 4. 4. 3: "Noli 

 quaerere ; ita mihi pulcher hie dies visus est, ut speciem aliquam viderer videre quasi 

 reviviscentis rei publicae." 



C. 92. 3 : " se ut in grabatum rejecit." Cf. Cic. de Divin. 2. 63. 129 : " Venit enim 

 jam in contentionem, utrum sit probabilius, deosne immortales, reriun omnium prae- 

 stantia excellentes, concursare omnium mortalium, qui ubique sunt, non modo lectos 

 verum etiam grabatos," etc. — C. 92. 9: "O juveuem laboriosum!" in the sense of 

 "capable of enduring labor." Cf. Cic. Tusc. 2. 15. 35: "Itaque industries homines 

 illi studiosos vel potius amantes doloris appellant : nos commodius laboriosos." 



