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C. 114. 1 : "inhorruit mare." Cf. Pacuv. in Cic. de Dmn. 1. li. 24: "Interea prope 

 jam occideute sole inhorrescit mare." — C. 114. 2: " certos fluctus," "rumiing steadily 

 in the same direction." Cf. Cic. de Nat. Deor. 2. 38. 97: "Quis enim liunc hominem 

 dixerit, qui, cum tam certos coeli motus tam ratos astrorum ordines tamque inter se 

 omnia connexa et apta viderit, neget in his uUam inesse rationem," etc. — C. 114. 13: 

 "infecta materies." Cf. Li v. 34. 10: "Argenti infecti tulit in aerarium quatuordecim 

 mUlia pondo septingenta triginta duo." 



C. 115. 4: "laborat carmen in fine." Cf Quint. 9. 4. 33: "Tum vocalium concur- 

 sus; qui cum accidit, hiat et intersistit et quasi laborat oratio." — C. 115. 5: "phrene- 

 tico." Cf Cic. de Di"vin. 1. 38. 81 : " Ego autem hand scio an nee cardiacis hoc trihu- 

 endum sit nee phreneticis." — C. 115. 6: "Hoc opere tandem elaborato." Cf. Cic. pro 

 Leg. Man. 1. 1 : "niliil hue nisi perfectum ingenio elaboratum industria afierri opor- 

 tere." — C. 115. 7: "cum poneremus consilium." Cf Cic. de Orat. 1. 22. 102: "Quid] 

 mihi nunc vos, iaquit Crassus, tamquam alicui Graeculo otioso et loquaci et fortasse 

 docto atque erudito quaestiunculam, de qua meo arbitratu loquar, ponitis?" Cic. 

 Tusc. 1. 4. 7: "Ponere jubebam, de quo quis audire vellet. — C. 115. 16: "Si bene 

 calculum ponas." Cf Plin. Ep. 1. 14. 9 : " Et sane de posteris et his pluribus cogi- 

 tanti hie quoque in. conditionibus deligendis ponendus est calculus." 



C. 116. 1: "carpimus iter." Cf Horat. Sat. 2. 6. 93: "Carpe viam, mihi crede, 

 comes." 



C. 117. 2: "largior schema" ; "schema" in the sense of "dress." Cf Plant. Amphitr. 

 Prol. 116: " Nunc, ne hunc omatum vos meum admiremini, Quod ego hue processi 

 sic cum servili schema." — " peram." Cf Phaedr. 4. 10. 1: "Peras imposuit Jupiter 

 nobis duas." — " differrem." Cf Caes. B. C. 2. 14: "Hunc [ignem] sic distulit ventus, 

 uti uno tempore agger plutei testudo tun-is tormenta flammani conciperent," etc. — 

 C. 117. 3: " Atqui promitto, quidquid exigeret," etc. It is well known that, while in 

 the more animated narrative the present is frequently used for the perfect, the de- 

 pendent tenses, in such sentences, are sometimes the imperfect and pluperfect, thus 

 shoAving that the leading verb, although a present in form, is a perfect in meaning. 

 Instances of this kind are not infrequent in the best writers. Zumpt, in his Latin 

 Grammar (p. 432), quotes a long passage from Cic. in Verr. 4. 18. 38, which variously 

 illustrates this peculiar usage, and of which it will be sufficient to give the concluding 

 clause : " Diodorus, homo frugi ac diligens, qui sua servare vellet, propinquo suo scri- 

 bit, ut iis, qui a Verre venissent, respouderet, Ulud argentum se paucis iUis diebus 

 mississe Lilybaeum." — C. 117. 6: "elatumque." Cf Cic. de Nat. Deor. 3. 32. 80: 

 "Cur Maximus extulit filium consularem ] " — C. 117. 7: "non agnoscere dignitatem 



