[602] Scio seems to mean ‘I am aware who I am when I make the request,’ so that it almost = ‘I admit.’ This use is imitated by Val. Fl. 1. 196, where Jason says, addressing Neptune, “Da veniam: scio me cunctis e gentibus unum Illicitas temptare vias, hiememque mereri.” We may comp. the use of ‘sciat’ G. 3. 474 (note), though we should hardly be justified in founding a special meaning of the word on these passages, as the original sense prevails in all, though a certain novelty is imparted in each case by the context. Serv. says “‘scio:’ modo confiteor.” For the quantity of ‘scio’ see on E. 8. 43. ‘E classibus’ = “e militibus in classe profectis.”
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