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DY LVAgeITICA 
CANADENSIUM. 
1—6, 
BY THE REV. JOHN McCAUL, LL.D., 
President of University College, Toronto. 
1. In Cicero, Phil. II., c. xxxi., are the following words, of which I 
have never seen any interpretation that I believe to be correct : 
**O hominem nequam! quid enim aliud dicam? magis proprie nihil possum 
dicere.” 
The ordinary acceptation of nihil possum dicere is, “I can give no 
name magis proprie than nequam.” I am inclined to think that it 
should be—“ TI can call thee magis proprie ‘thou nothing.’” Cicero, 
when he said neguam, had not reached the limit of revilement, for he 
might have said nequissimum. I would translate the whole passage 
thus : “ O good for nothing man! for what else am I to call thee? Yes! 
I can give thee a name more peculiarly thy own—‘ thou nothing.’” It 
is remarkable that we have in Horace (Sat. II., vii., 100) these words— 
nequam and nil—in juxtaposition, in a similar sense : 
Nequam et cessator Davus ; at ipse 
Subtilis veterum judex et callidus audis: 
Nil ego, si ducor libo fumante. 
We find other examples of this use of the word ni/ (or the equiva- 
lent nihil) in Cicero—e. gr., Hpist. Pamil. vii. 27, te nihil esse cognos- 
ceres, and in Divin. Verr. 14, nihil fweris and 15, nihil est, nihil 
potest. Similarly 05d2y is used in Greek, e. gr., Eurip., Orest. 718) 
@ TAny yovatnos odvexa otpatyndatety Tadv obdev, x. t. A. 
2. In the Lphemeris Epigraphica, 1877, Vol. III., pp. 113-155, are 
the Additamenta by Prof. Hiibner to the Inscriptions of Britain as 
given by him in the 7th volume of the “Corpus Inscriptionum 
Latinarum.” They have been chiefly supplied by Mr. W. Thompson 
Watkin. Among the remarks given there is the following: “ Ad n. 
906. In OC. A. latere custodem armorum Buechelerus coniecit pro- 
babiliter. Titulus igitur ita legendus videtur esse: d(is) M(anibus, 
