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,. C. 34. 2: "colaphisque objurgari puerum . . . jussit." I know of no writer of the 

 best age who uses "objurgare" in the sense of "punish, chastise." 



C. 36. 5: "Non minus et Trimalchio ejusmodi methodo laetus." "Methodus," if the 

 reading be correct, is used in the sense of " contrivance, invention," a meaning of which 

 I know no other instance. 



C. 54. 3 : " Pessime milii erat, ne," etc., in the sense of " I feared," probably a collo- 

 quial expression, although I do not know of another instance. Similar phrases are 

 Plant. Amphit. 5. 1. 6: " Animo male est" ; True. 2. 4. 14: "Non edcpol bibere possum 

 jam; ita animo male est"; and Cure. 1. 3. 8: "nam si absim, hand rccusem, quin mihi 

 male sit." — "ne his precibus periculo aliquid catastrophae quaereretur" ; "catastro- 

 pha," in this sense, seems to be a a-n-a^ \eydfj,evov. 



C. 69. 6 : " nisi epidipnis esset allata." The plural, " epidipnides," occurs in a few 

 instances; the singular, in this place alone. — C. 69. 8: " et omnium genera avium" ; 

 for " omnium generum aves." 



C. 72. 4 : " nudisque consurrexit pedibus et Trimalchionem gaudentem subscqui," 

 for " subsecutus est"; a singular use of the historical infinitive immediately after the 

 indicative consurrexit." 



C. 74. 9 : " maledicere Trimalchionem coepit." This is the only instance in which 

 Encolpius uses this irregular construction, which, as has been stated above, was fre- 

 quent among the uneducated (see c. 58. 13 and c. 96. 7). In all other instances, Encol- 

 pius, or Petronius, as well as the steward of Trimalchio, uses the regidar construction ; 

 see c. 53. 3 ; c. 117. 11 ; c. 132. 13 and 14. 



C. 97. 10: " Amolitur Ascyltus in\-idiam." "Amoliri" is used in similar phrases in 

 Quint. 5. 13. 11 : " Videndum etiam, simul nobis plura aggredienda sint, an amolienda 

 singula." Tac. Hist. 3. 75 : " invidiam crimeuque agnovisse et a partibus Vitellii amo- 

 litus videbatur." In the literal sense the verb occurs in the Historiae of L. Cornelius 

 Siseuna, who was probably a few years older than Cicero. Cf Non. 2. 73 : " Sisenna 

 Historiae IIII : inpcdunentum omne de cunctis itineribus amoliuntur." — " quem post 

 fatalem rixam habuit carissunmn." Reiske explains "post" as being used in the man- 

 ner of the Greek iierd, in the sense of " except." I know of no other instance of 

 "post" being used in this sense. 



C. 102. 4: "per ipsa gubernacula." While this word, in a metaphorical sense, is 

 almost without exception used in the plural, I do not know of another instance of the 

 plural when the word is employed in its literal meaning, as here. 



C. 102. 7 : " nee vos quidem existimo veUe"; c. 110. 4: " quem alloquio dignum nee* 



* The Codex Memmianus has " ne." 

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