This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...their dolls on 'coming out.' 1. 66. You are none the less a slave because you are a notary. 1. 68. You are so skinny and meagre that you could have done with one pound of food--the regular allowance being four: thus (Cicirrhus argues) you might have saved the surplus food and sold it, and so purchased your freedom. It ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...their dolls on 'coming out.' 1. 66. You are none the less a slave because you are a notary. 1. 68. You are so skinny and meagre that you could have done with one pound of food--the regular allowance being four: thus (Cicirrhus argues) you might have saved the surplus food and sold it, and so purchased your freedom. It was generally allowed slaves to make a little money in some such way as this. These savings were called the slave's peculium. (How does the meaning of our word 'peouliar' come from this?) Seneca mentions how the slaves pro capite numerant peculium mum, quod comparaverunt ventre fraudato. 1. 7i. Beneventum was originally called Maleventum. The name was changed in order to avoid the bad omen in the old name. What other euphemistic names can you recollect? 1. 72. Order: Sedulus hospes paene arsit, dum versat macros turdos in igni. arsit dum versat. Notice the present tense. What other meaning and construction has dum? 1. 74. Vuloanus was a common colloquial name for fire. What other names of deities can you mention which are used in the same way? 1. 76. videres, you might have seen: ' imperfect subjunctive in the apodosis (ixiSoats) of a conditional sentence, with protasis suppressed. Supply the protasis. How telling the epithets are in the line above I The guests are avidi, the slaves timentes. 1. 77. ez illo, so. tempore. So Xp"u is omitted, notos, because belonging to my native country. 1. 78. atabulus, a hot south-easterly wind, now culled Altino. 1, 79. erepsemus, colloquial for erepsissemus; so vixet in. Virgil, Aeneid, xi. 118. The word erepere expresses tho painfulness of the aaceut--'struggled over. The bill was too steep for carriages. 1. 82. viginti et for el vigiiUL rapimur: it was down hill. 1. 83. The awkward name is Equoluticum...
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