This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...invoke a god or goddess in the same circumstances. We get an example in Curc. 2. 3. 75. 77. 'We poor mice who nibble, nibble at other men's larders.' 78. rea prolatae: 'Vacation, ' lit. ' business adjourned;' the regular phrase in Latin. 79. Semul = simul (cf. v. 292), 'our grinders have Vacation too.' ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...invoke a god or goddess in the same circumstances. We get an example in Curc. 2. 3. 75. 77. 'We poor mice who nibble, nibble at other men's larders.' 78. rea prolatae: 'Vacation, ' lit. ' business adjourned;' the regular phrase in Latin. 79. Semul = simul (cf. v. 292), 'our grinders have Vacation too.' 80. calotur: this impersonal use of the passive of intransitive verbs is especially found with verbs of motion, e.g. vetttum est, aditum est, etc. Ut valetur?' how do you do?' was a common greeting. 'They say snails crawl off to their holes in the dog-days.' 84. rurant: a coinage of Plautus. (The common word is rustkari). Cf. dentio in Mil. 1. 1. 34 ne dentes dentiant. 86. redierunt, sc. res, the regular expression for the resumption of business. Cf. Cic. post Red. 11. 27 cum res rediissent. 87. Odiosici and incommodostici are funnily coined words after the style of uenatici and Molossici (of which last indeed the usual form is Molossi), as if they were names of breeds of dogs. 'Aye I in Vacation we diners-out are keen as beagles. We're wolf-hounds when it's over, and Var-hounds too, yes I and fore-hounds.' The Molossi were properly watch-dogs (Hor. Sat. 2. 6. 114). 88. hio: 'here at Calydon.' 89. frangi. A more careful and logical writer than Plautus would have said frangi sinere. aulas: the old form of ollos. 90. The porta Trigemina (so called from its three archways) was in one of the busiest parts of Rome, the Salinae, at the corner of the Aventine. Porters and message-carriers had a stance there, and Ergasilus says that he will have to take his place among them to earn a living. Roman porters, like English porters, had a bag saccus) in which to carry smaller articles entrusted to them: 'Then hey! for Three Arches and the porter's..
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