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. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ...clause, in the sense of ' not only--but also.' 64. Q F. Quinti Filius. This Dechis was the one who devoted himself at the battle under Vesuvius in the Latin War. 71. Obsidione. According to the story, the army of Cossus, when invading Samnium, was hemmed in by the Samnites in a defile of the Apennines, ...
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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. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ...clause, in the sense of ' not only--but also.' 64. Q F. Quinti Filius. This Dechis was the one who devoted himself at the battle under Vesuvius in the Latin War. 71. Obsidione. According to the story, the army of Cossus, when invading Samnium, was hemmed in by the Samnites in a defile of the Apennines, and only saved by Decius occupying a hill, and bearing the whole brunt of the enemy's attack, till the rest of the army made their way back. 74. Filius. The one who commanded at the battle of Sentinum in the third Samnite war, 295 B. c. 76. Est apud Platonem Socrates, ' We have Socrates in Plato.' This is mentioned in the dialogue called 'Crito.' 81. Tertia te. The line is from II. 9. 363 tjftari Kfv TpiTarcp &61tjv kpifituKov ttcoto. 82. Xenophon. He narrates his dreams in Anab. 3. I, 12, and 4. 3, 8. 91. Alexandre See Pt. 1. 17. Diffiderent, 'despaired of him.' 97. Prima, ' the two first predictions.' 102. Excesserit--videatur. The tenses refer the interpretation to the time when the dream occurred. 'When Eudemus' soul has left his body, then he is to be considered to have returned home.' 108. Ubi idem saepius, 'when the dream recurred again and again.' The verb is to be supplied from ' vidit' above. Areopagum, the highest judicial court at Athens. See Dict, of Ant. 110. Quaestione adhibita, 'being put to torture.' 'Quaestio, 'which literally means 'enquiry, ' is often used by itself for investigation by torture, and the use of' adhibita' with it implies that that is its meaning here. 111. Indicis Herculis, ' of Hercules the Revealer.' 'Index' from' Die-, ' the root of' dico, ' StUenvfu, ' digitus, ' means literally, ' that which points out;' hence it means, (i) ' the fore-finger, ' as being used to point with; (2) 'an informer;'
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