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dictum pidat, eo, quod nihil molle, sed potius asperum quid 

 gerat 



II. He is very fond of deriving Latin words from Greek. 

 On Aen. 1, 184, he says: Sciendum autem est etiam Latina 

 nomina Graecam plerumque etymologiam recipere. Natu- 

 rally enough he goes to an extreme in this direction, and we 

 find him offering a Greek etymology not only to Latin words, 

 which are at most cognate with Greek, but to others where 

 the connection he assumes is absolutely wrong. A few ex- 

 amples will suffice to show some of the results of this ten- 

 dency.* animus, A. 1, 57, and anima, A. 8, 403, uttu zwv w^ipM'j, 

 antes, G. 2, 417, o-h r«n dyrtffrrjxscv. aptum, A. 4, 482; 11, 202, 

 and TOO a-TsnOai. ars, A. 5, 705,«7ro r^? dp£Tr/<^. inclita, A. 6, 781, 

 Graecum est; nam y./-uTdv gloriosum dicunt. ara, A. 2, 515, a 

 precibus, quas Graeci apd'i dicunt. rura, A. 1, 430, Graece apoopa 

 dicuntur. Aphaeresis' ergo sermonem fecit Latinum. telum, 

 A. 2, 468; 8, 249; 9, 507; 9, 744, dTzb too tt^XoOv,. ulna, B. 3, 105, 



d-o -wv (hkt'^ujv. ululae, B. 8, 55, ar.b TOO 6?.oXd^eiv. uri, G.2, 374, 

 d;ro Tujv dpiujv. Frequently we have two or more derivations 

 offered for the same word, and in several cases one of these 

 optional etymologies is from the Greek. For examples see 

 the explanations of Acidalia, A. 1, 720; ancile, A. 8, 664; annus, 

 A. 1, 269; clarigatio, A. 10, 14; Quirinus, A. 1, 292; scopulus, 

 A. 1,45; Vesta, A. 1, 292. 



Nettleship, Lectures and Essays, p. 212, notices a remark- 

 able difference between Yarro and Verrius Flaccus in the 

 matter of etymology. Varro, if we may judge by the De 

 Lingua Latina, preferred to explain Latin words by assuming 

 for them a Latin origin: Verrius, to judge from the epitome 

 of Paulus, certainly seems to have a predilection for deriving 

 Latin words from Greek. Possibly Ser'vius' fondness for 

 Graecizing etymologies is one of the results of his indebted- 

 ness, direct or indirect, to Verrius'' great icork. 



III. The Roman philologists usually confined their in- 

 quiries very strictly to their own and the Greek language, 

 paying little attention to other languages or even to the 



*A11 quotations from Servius in this paper are from tlie edition of Thilo and Hagen, 

 1878-1887. 



