92 SYLVA CRITICA CANADENSIUM. 
On this passage Conington remarks that ‘“ Keightley seems right 
in saying that in agmine ought to have been strictly in acie. There 
may be some rhetorical point in the catachresis to show the rapidity 
with which the line of march is exchanged for line of battle.” I think 
that it is possible to give agmine its proper meaning, without assuming 
any catachresis. The heavy burden of stakes under which the Roman 
soldier is described, in the preceding line, as toiling along, would enable 
him, as Conington says, to exchange with rapidity the line of march 
for line of battle. As I take it, the idea conveyed is, that an enemy 
surprises the Romans while on the march ; instantly each man plants 
his stakes, and, to the amazement of the enemy, there is a stockade 
to storm instead of a column with unprotected flanks. This may be 
brought out, I think, without difficulty, by laying stress on agmine. 
I would render thus: ‘‘ Not otherwise than when the brave Roman 
in the arms of his fathers, beneath an unequal burden wends his 
way, and unexpectedly, with pitched camp confronts the foe, though 
on the march.” Perhaps, however, it is better to make hosti depend 
upon expectatum ; in which case the force of e¢ will be more apparent ; 
thus, “when, beneath an unequal burden, he wends his way; and 
suddenly, all unexpected by the foe, stands with pitched camp though 
on the march.” 
13. Juvenal, Satire XITII., v. 197. 
“*Poena autem vehemens ac multo saevior illis, 
Quas et Cedicius gravis invenit aut Rhadamanthus, 
Nocte dieque suum gestare in pectore testem.” 
Who the Ceedicius here mentioned was, the commentators are unable 
to discover. The scholiast, as usual, makes a guess, and gravely states 
that Ceedicius was either a cruel judge, or something else, in the reign 
of Nero. It strikes me that the name is one coined from the verb 
cedo, in which case it would be pretty nearly equivalent to “strike- 
em.” Thus it would do duty either for the “Jack Ketch” of the 
day, or for the cruel Draco of antiquity. 
14. Propertius, V. ix. 5. 
“Qua Velabra suo stagnabant flumine, quaque 
Nauta per urbanas velificabat aquas.” 
We have here one of those amusing attempts at derivation, in which 
the ancients were fond of indulging. Mr. Paley has the following 
note on this passage: ‘“ Velabra.—The low part of the city called the 
Velabrum is here derived from vela, on the theory that it was once, 
