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Kni a avTi rovTuiv es tu UpvTavelov koKw, 

 Es TTjv eSpav 6', Iv tKuvos rju 6 (jiapiiaKot' 



C. 108. 12: "stlatarium bellum." Provided this be the correct reading, it is not easy 

 to give a satisfactory explanation of the expression. The adjective occurs, so far as I 

 kno-n-, in one passage only, Juv. 7. 13-4: " Spondet enini Tyrio stlataria purpura filo" ; 

 unless we admit the authority of the scholiast to this passage, Avho quotes from Ennius 

 this line: 



" Et melior navis, quam quae stlataria portat." 



The noun, certainly, was of early origin. Cf. Fest. p. 313: " Stlata genus erat navigii 

 latum magis quam altum, sic appellatum a latitudine, sed ea consuetudine, qua stlocum 

 pro locum et stlitem antiqui pro litem dicebant." Gellius enumerates the word in a list 

 of names of weapons and vessels which occur in ancient writers : " quae in historiis 

 veteribus scripta sunt." There is no evidence that the adjective, as well as the noun, 

 was not early in use ; on the contrary, the reverse is highly probable ; for even if the 

 scholiast to Juvenal was mistaken in ascribing the line quoted to Ennius, it was im- 

 doubtedly borrowed from a writer of equal age and authority. 



C. 109. 5: "odia detumescunt." I knoAv of no earlier writer who uses this verb 

 than Statins. Cf. Theb. 5. 468: 



" Detumuere animi maris, et clementior Auster 

 Vela vocat." 



— C. 109. 8: " elegidarion," in the sense of "elegidion." I am not aware that the 

 word occurs in any other writer. 



C. 110. 1: " corymbio." "Corj-mbion" is undoubtedly the diminutive of " corym- 

 bos," but it occurs in no other writer. — C. 110. 5 : " capillamento." Although I know of 

 no earlier writer who uses this word than Pliny and Seneca, they both use it in a man- 

 ner incompatible with the idea that it had lately come mto use, or that it was of their 

 makmg. On the contrary, the figiurative sense in which Pliny several times uses it, as 

 well as Seneca, necessarily implies the previous existence of the word in its literal sense.* 



C. 111. 2: " conditorium," in the sense of "sepulchre." Cf Plin. Ep. 6. 10. 5: 

 " Tarn rara in amicitiis fides, tam parata obli%do mortuorum, ut ipsi nobis debeamus 

 etiam conditoria exstruere omniaque heredum officia praesumere." Although Pliny 

 the younger is the earliest writer in whose writings this word, used in the sense of 

 " sepulchre," occurs, there is no e'sidence that it did not exist long before. 



* Cf. Plin. Nat. Hist. 16. 10. 16. 38 : " ex his pinus atque pinaster folium habent capillatnenti modo prae- 

 tenue longumque et mucrone aculeatum." Sen. Ep. 86. 18 : " hujus [vitis] capillamenta quoque, si fieri 

 potest, colligenda sunt." 



