[556] Tisiphone is meant to act as porter or sentinel, v. 575. ‘Servat’ G. 4. 459. ‘Exsomnis’ i. q. ‘insomnis.’ It is used by Hor. 3. Od. 25. 9 in the sense of ‘starting from sleep,’ but it would be too much to assume with Forb. that such is its natural meaning. All we can say is that while words compounded with ‘in’ may be called negative, like those with ἀ in Greek, those compounded with ‘ex,’ like those with ἀπό, may be called privative: but in poetical language at any rate the two are virtually equivalent. Rom. has ‘insomnis.’ “Noctes atque dies” v. 127 above.
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