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Van*, cle E. E,. 2. 2. 16: "nc to to die cursantes inter se tencri delibent aliquid membro- 

 rum." — " et dum coaequale natalium suorum sinciput in carnarium furca reponit." 

 However questionable the word " coaequale " may appear, it has the authority of Colu- 

 mella, 8. 1-1. 8: " atque ubi [anser] se paullum confirmavit, in gregem coaequalium 

 compellitur." — C. 136. 3: " statimque, ne res aliqua sacrificium moraretur, ad refi- 

 ciendum ignem in vicinia cucurrit." If "invicinia" be connected with "adreficien- 

 dum ignem," there is no grammatical irregularity, although it must be confessed that 

 the use of "cucurrit" without a designation of the place whither the woman ran is 

 abrupt and harsh ; if, on the other hand, " in vicinia " is to be connected with " cucurrit," 

 the construction is undoubtedly ungrammatical, but not without example in good writ- 

 ers. Cf Cato de K R. 157. 15 : "Et si polypus in naso introierit, brassicam erraticam 

 aridam tritam in malum conjicito." Plant. Amph. 4. 3. 14: "Certum est, introrumpam 

 in aedibus."* Plant. Aul. 3. 6. 17: "Qui intromisisti in aedibus* quingentos cocos." 

 Cic. Tusc. 3. 11. 25: "His autem perturbationibus, quas in vitaf hominvmi stultitia 

 quasi quasdam furias immittit atque incitat." — C. 136. 4: " Itaque ad casae ostiolum 

 processi." Cf Colum. 8. 14. 1: " et aditus singulos firmis ostiolis munitos." — C. 136. 

 5 : " pedem mensulae extorsi." The form " mensula," although it does not occur fre- 

 quently, is used by Plautus, Most. 1. 3. 150: "Age accumbe igitur; cedo aquam mani- 

 bus, puere ; oppone hie mensulam." 



C. 137. 10: "Interea haec satagens"; and c. 58. 9 : " satagis." The contracted form 

 " satago," as well as the original form " satis ago," occurs in old and good writers. Cf. 

 Plant. Asin. 2. 4. 34 : " Prius quae credidi, vix anno post exegi ; Nunc satagit : abducit 

 domum etiam ultro et scribit numos." Plant. Merc. 2. 1.4: " Velut ego noctc hac, 

 quae praeteriit, proxuma In somnis egi satis et fui homo exercitus." 



C. 139. 5: "Unus ex novitiis servulis." C£ Varr. de L. L. 7. 2: "etiam novitii 

 servi empti in magna familia cito omnium conservorum omnis recto casu accepto in 

 reliquos obliques declinant." Cic. in Pison. 1. 1 : "Nemo queritur Syrum nescio quern 

 de grege novitiorum factum esse consulem." 



In making this selection of words and phrases, I have endeavored, without extend- 

 ing the list unnecessarily, to choose such as are fair representatives of the phraseology 

 of Encolpius and the other more cultivated personages of the story. It will be seen, 

 that the use of these phrases and words is justified by the authority of the best writers 

 of the best age; and that the language of Petronius himself and of the better-edu- 



* It should be noticed that some editions read, in both these places, "aedis," for " aedibus." 

 t Orclli adopts the reading " vitam," but states in the note : " Sic [in vitam] L. D. 1. W. 2. — ' in vita' 

 Cdd. noti, etiam b. Ceterac Edd. (etiam W. in Ed. pr.)." 



