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1 But compare MCCAUL's note: "Unctum. A savory dish, a delicacy. Comp. note, Epist. i. 15, 44, and 17, 12. Thus
etc., where scis is a kind of comment on possit here as calidum sumen on unctum. Comp. also Sat. vi. 15: “'aut coenare sine uncto.'” Gesner and Doering, however, explain unctum as used for convivam (note, Epist. i. 17, 12), and ponere for collocare, to place at table on a couch."“'Calidum scis ponere sumen,
Scis comitem horridulum trita donare lacerna,'
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2 Aristarchus was a critic, who wrote above four score volumes of comments on the Greek poets. His criticisms on Homer were so much esteemed, that no line was thought genuine until he had acknowledged it. He was surnamed the prophet or diviner, for his sagacity.
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