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C. 116. 1: "ex quo haud procul impositum arce sublimi oppiclum cernimus," for 

 " in arce sublimi." 



C. 117. 1 : "genusque divitatiouis." If this be the correct reading, the word "divita- 

 tio " is a uTra^ Xejofievov. The Verb from which it is derived occurs in ancient writers. 

 Cf. Non. 2. 95 : " Divitant pro divites faciunt. Accius Astyanacte : nihil credo augu- 

 ribus, qui auris verbis divitant Alienas, suas ut auro locupletent domos. Turpilius 

 Transilione : di me divitant." Gellius (1-4. 1) also quotes the former passage from 

 Accius. The presumption, therefore, is in favor of "divitatio" being an old word. 



C. 127. 1 : "risit tam blandum." The ecstatic frame of mind of Encolpius is indi- 

 cated by the poetic coloring of this passage, and this accounts satisfactorily for the use 

 of the adjective "blandum" for the adverb "blande." 



C. 131. 5: " praecantatos." This word is a aira^ Xeyo/Mevov ; but from the fact that 

 another word of the same root, " praecantrix " and " praecantatrix," " a sorceress," oc- 

 curs in some of the oldest writers,* the inference is natural that the non-occurrence of 

 " praecantatus " in other writers is accidental. 



C. 132. 3: " convocat omnes quasUlarias." Cf Gruter. Inscr. 648.5: "Musa. Quasill 

 Vix. An. XXX Cratinus. Lanipend De. Suo." — C. 132. 12: " poenitentiam agere ser- 

 monis mei coepi." Cf De Orat. Dial. 15 : " Neque illius, inquit, sermonis mei poeni- 

 tentiam ago." 



C. 136. 13: "tam magnum aeque clamorem sustulit, ut putares," etc. A singular 

 and unnecessary use of " aequo," the sense being fully expressed by " tam." A second 

 construction seems to have been in the mind of Encolpius, namely, " aeque magnum 

 clamorem sustulit, ac si iterum anseres limen intrassent," which he changed into its 

 present form, unnecessarily retaining " aeque." 



C. 141. 9: " Quod si exeraplis vis quoque probari consilium"; for "Quodsiexem- 

 plis quoque vis probari consilium." 



It will be readUy perceived that the above list of words or phrases and grammatical 

 forms consists of two kinds, — of those which occur in Petronius alone, unsupported 

 by the authority of any other writer, early or late, and of those which occur also in 

 other later writers. To the former class belong: "in controversiam esse," c. 15. 3; 

 "conciones," c. 14. 7, c. 15. 4, and c. 15. 8; "centonem exhibendum postulare," c. 15. 7; 

 " exsonare," c. 16. 1, c. 73. 4, and c. 109. 6; "in hoc deversorio admitti," c. 19. 2; "in 

 balneo sequi," c. 26. 10; "in solio descendere," c. 73. 5 ; "in vicinia currere," c. 136. 3; 



* Cf. Non. 8. 494 : " Praecantrix. Varro Cato, vel de liberis educandis : ut faciunt pleracque, ut adhibe- 

 ant praecantrices, nee medico ostendunt." Plaut. Mil. 3. 1. 98 : " da, quod dem quinquatribus Praecantrici 

 [al. Praecantatrici], conjectrici, ariolae atque aruspicae." 



