Horace, Od. Ill, 1, 34. 35 



looked by commentators, but it gives the clue to the correct 

 interpretation of the Horace passage in hand. The quota- 

 tion from Plautus is found in Cistillaria 1, 1, 7, where it is 

 correctly interpreted in the periphrasis of the Delphin edi- 

 tion, as follows: " Mihi exhihuistis sedulam opernm, omissis 

 ceteris negoUis.'' Applying this meaning of frequens to the 

 phrase frequens redempior it will at once be seen how much 

 easier and fitter it is than the doubtful explanations given. No 

 one surely would have found difficulty with the phrase redemp- 

 ior assiduus or redempior sedulus, which, as it appears, is ex- 

 actly the meaning of frequens redempior. Kiessling, while he 

 does not comment on the word frequens, nor give any refer- 

 ences for this use of it, seems from the following translation to 

 understand it in the sense of assiduus or sedulus: "Unabliissig 

 (frequens) versenkt der Unternehmer mit seineu Werkleuten 

 die Bruchsteine in die Fundamente, etc." 



