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Ep. 1. 13. 9: "Asinaeque paternum Cognomen vertas in risum et fabula fias." — 

 C. 111. 8: "exulceratae mentes." Cf. Cic. pro Deiot. 3. 8: " cumque apud ipsum te 

 de tuo periculo dicerent, fore putabant, lit in exulcerato "animo facile fictum crimen 

 insideret." 



C. 112. 5: "cruciarii." I find one authority, but a sufficient one, for the use of this 

 word ; namely, M. Seneca, Controv. 3. 21 : " fecit se similem tyrauuo, filiam raptis, liber- 

 tum cruciariis." — C. 112. 6: " residet." C£ Plaut. Capt. 3. 1. 8: "Ita venter guttur- 

 que resident esuriales ferias." Cic. pro Rose. Amer. 21. 59 : " ita negligens esse coe- 

 pit, ut, cum in mentem veniret ei, resideret." 



C. 113. 1: " et erubescente non mediocriter Tryphaena vultum suum super cer\icem 

 Gitonis amabiliter posuit." This irregular use of the ablative absolute, both the par- 

 ticiple and finite verb having the same subject, cannot be fully justified by the passage 

 in Cic. de Xat. Deor. 2. 15. 39, " Atque hac mundi divinitate perspecta tribuenda est 

 sideribus eadem di^"initas," because, in the latter, the form of the clause is essentially 

 altered by the repetition of " divinitas" in the nominative in connection with the fijiite 

 verb " tribuenda est," after ha'sing been used in the ablative in connection with the 

 participle "perspecta." The instance, c. 76. 10, spoken of above (p. 130), " nolente 

 me . . . exoravit," is of no weight, partly because it is put in the mouth of the ignorant 

 Tiimalchio, partly because it is probably to be explained as a Grecism. An instance 

 in Flor. 4. 1, "Tum consul habito senatu in praesentem reum Cicero peroravit: sed 

 non amplius profectum, quam ut hostis evaderet seque palam professo incendium suimi 

 restincturum ruina minaretur," bears a closer resemblance to our passage, and, although 

 it cannot establish the correctness of the expression of our author, it proves that this 

 irregularity is not "^^ithout example in the best ages of Latin literature. — C. 113. 4: 

 " praeoccupaverat." The simple verb " occupo" expresses what is intended to be ex- 

 pressed by " praeoccupo." Although Cicero cannot be adduced as an authority for 

 this word, — since in the only passage in which the word is said to occur (Phil. 10. 1. 

 2, "Quas enim ipse mihi partes sumpseram, eas praeoccupavit oratio tua") the better 

 reading is " praecepit," — other writers of the best age may be quoted. C£ Caes. B. G. 

 6. 41 : " Sic omnium animos timor praeoccupaverat, ut paene alienata mente deletis 

 omnibus copiis equitatum tantum se ex fuga recepisse dicerent." Liv. 4. 48: "ubi 

 videaut coUegas principes agendae rei gratiam omnem ad plebem praeocciipasse," etc. 



— C. 113. 7: "Omnia me oscula vulnerabant " ; "vulnerare" in a metaphorical sense. 

 C£ Cic. in Cat. 1. 4. 9 : " et quos ferro trucidari oportebat, eos nondum voce vulnero." 



— C. 113. 8: "tralatitia propinatione." Cf Phaedr. 5. 7. 24: " Di sunt locuti more 

 translatitio." 



