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may be difcerned either between objecls and objecls, or between 

 events and the times and places of their occurrence. 



Nihil homini amico eft opportuno amicius *. 



" Ceterse res quse expetuntur opportune? funt fingulae rebus fere 

 " fingulis : divitiae ut utare : opes ut colare : honores ut lau- 

 " dere : voluptates ut gaudeas f." In the firft of the above 

 examples, the friend may prefent himfelf either accidentally, 

 or in confequence of being fought for ; in the laft, the diffe- 

 rent things mentioned are all the objecls of an intended and a 

 keen fearch. Both examples imply, that the occurrence or the 

 attainments are highly feafonable, from the circumftances of 

 the perfon concerned. " Ad hofce proferendos, et tempus et 

 " locum opportunijjimum elegi Jj/' In this laft example, we fee 

 the fuitablenefs between the event and both the time and the 

 place of its occurrence. 



Tempestivus denotes the fuitablenefs of objecls and events 

 from neither of the circumftances already mentioned, but from 

 the former being in their ftate of full maturity, and the latter 

 occurring at their proper feafon. As applied to objecls, tern* 

 pejiivus fuppofes them belonging either to the animal or the ve- 

 getable kingdom, and of courfe having a progrefs toward per* 

 feclion, and afterwards a decline. " Vindemia tempeftiva §." 



Aut tempeftivam fylvis evertere pinum **» 



Tandem define matrem, 

 Tempeftiva fequi viro ff. 

 Vol. III. q When 



* Plaut. Epid. 3. 3.44. § Colum. n. 12. 



t Cic. de Am. 100. a, ** Virg. G. 1. 256. 



t Plin. lib. 8. ff Hor. Car. 1. 23, u 



