﻿2^ 1^2 THE AGE OF PETRONIUS ARBITER. 



cated persons contains, so far, nothing inconsistent with the period indicated by the 

 historical evidence, as well as by that portion of the linguistic evidence which has 

 hitherto been examined. But the examination would be incomplete, were I to pass 

 by some grammatical forms and expressions, both in the language of Petronius and 

 that of the better-educated persons, which have not the support and authority of writ- 

 ers of the best age, Avithout considering how far they affect the answer to the question 

 in what age Petronius wrote. 



C. 15. 3 : " Neque enim res tantum, quae viderentur in controversiam esse," etc., for 

 "in controversia." — C. 15. 4: " et nescio quis ex concionibus"; a singular use of the 

 plural, as if " concio " meant " a hearer," instead of " a collection of hearers," a use of 

 the word for which I find no authority. The passage quoted by De Salas and others, 

 from Cic. de Orat., " condones saepe exclamare vidi, cum apta verba cecidissent," is not 

 apposite, because Cicero speaks of several different assemblies, not of the individuals 

 present at one. There are two other instances of the same use of " condones " in our 

 writer, c. 14. 7, "et condones, quae ad clamorem confluxerant," and c. 15. 8, "ridere 

 acumen non minus concionum quam calumniantium." — C. 15. 7: "Indignatus enim 

 rusticus, quod nos centonem exhibendum postularemus," for " ut centonem exhiberet." 



C. 16. 1: "ostium satis audaci strepitu impulsum exsonuit"; c. 19. 1: "Omnia 

 mimico risu exsonuerant " ; c 73. 4: "gingilipho et ingenti clamore exsonabant"; and 

 c. 109. 6 : " Exsonat ergo cantibus totum navigium." The verb " exsonare," as far as 

 I know, occurs in Petronius — and with him in these few passages — alone. 



C. 19. 2: "Weo vetui hodie in hoc dcversorio quemquam mortalium admitti," for 

 " deversorium" ; c. 26. 10 : " et Gitona, libentissime servile officium tuentem usque hoc, 

 jubemus in balneo sequi," for "in balneum"; c. 73. 5: "Nos, dum alii sibi ludos fa- 

 ciunt, in solio, quod Trimalchioni parabatnr, descendimus," for "iu solium"; and 

 c. 136. 3: "ad reficiendum ignem in vicinia cucurrit," for "in viciniam"; the first 

 used by Quartilla, the last three by Encolpius. 



C. 26. 8: "Itaque cum moesti diliberaremus, quonam genere praesentem evitaremus 

 procellam, unus servus Agamemnonis interpellavit trepidantes " ; for " quo modo," or 



" qua ratione." 



C. 27. 5 : " cum Trimalchio digitos concrepuit," for " digitis," as Cic. de Ofiic. 3. 

 19. 1: "si digitis concrepuerit " ; and c. 22. 6: "et concrejpans aera," for "aeribus" 



or "acre." 



C. 29. 1: "dum omnia stupeo"; c. 60. 8: "Candidas succincti tunicas"; and c. 

 82. 1: "gladio latus cingor"; a poetical construction. — C. 29. 2: "Et coUegae quidem 

 mei riserunt" ; " coUega" in the sense of " fellow-guest." I know of no other instance 

 of the word being used iu this sense. 



