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and after congratulations escorted him to the 

 Capitol. And so he to his house/ we to ours. 

 And thus ended the conversation about ^'home 

 feeding," of which, my friend Pinnius, I have 

 given you the gist. 



Aedile and so had the right to wear the dress peculiar to 

 senators and certain magistrates — the toga praetexta — which 

 had a broad band of purple {latus clavus). The word to be 

 understood after lata is probably purpura. For the right of a 

 Curule Aedile to wear the toga praetexta cf. Cic. in Verrem, 

 V, 14 — the locu^ classicus for the duties and privileges of a 

 Curule Aedile. 



* Endo suam domum. This is a deliberate archaism and is 

 thought to be an imitation of Ennius's endo suam do (quoted 

 by Ausonius), where the do is an apocopated form of domum 

 resembling Homer's ^w. 



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