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Book XV


I

That it is written in the Annals of Quintus Claudius that wood smeared with alum does not burn 59

[p. ix]


II

That Plato in the work which he wrote On the Laws expressed the opinion that inducements to drink more abundantly and more merrily at feasts were not without benefit 61


III

What Marcus Cicero thought and wrote about the prefix in the verbs aufugio and aufere; and whether this same preposition is to be seen in the verb autumo 67


IV

The story of Ventidius Bassus, a man of obscure birth, who is reported to have been the first to celebrate a triumph over the Parthians 69


V

That the verb profligo is used by many improperly and ignorantly 73


VI

An evident mistakee in the second book of Cicero On Glory, in the place where he has written about Hector and Ajax 75


VII

It has been observed of old men, that the sixty-third year of their life is marked as a rule by troubles, by death, or by some disaster, and an example apropos of this observation is taken from a letter of the deified Augustus to his son Gaius 77


VIII

A passage from a speech of Favonius, an early orator, containing an attack which he made on luxurious entertainments, when he was advocating the Licinian law for lessening extravagance 81


IX

That the poet Caecilius used frons in the masculine gender, not by poetic licence, but properly and by analogy 83


X

About the strange suicides of the maids of Miletus 85


XI

The words of a decree of the senate on expelling philosophers from the city of Rome; also the words of the edict of the censors by which those were rebuked and restrained who had begun to establish and practise the art of rhetoric at Rome 87


XII

A highly memorable passage from a speech of Gracchus', regarding his frugality and continence 89

[p. xi]


XIII

Of some unusual words, which are used in either voice and are called by the grammarians “common” 91


XIV

That Metellus Numidicus borrowed a new form of expression from Greek usage 97


XV

That the early writers used passis velis and passis manibus, not from the verb patior, to which the participle belongs, but from pando, to which it does not belong 97


XVI

Of the singular death of Milo of Croton 99


XVII

Why young men of noble rank at Athens gave up playing the pipes, although it was one of their native customs 101


XVIII

hat the battle which Gaius Caesar fought on the plains of Pharsalus during the civil war was announced on the very same day at Patavium in Italy, and his victory foretold, by the divination of a seer 103


XIX

emorable words of Marcus Varro from the satire entitled περὶ ᾿εδεσμάτεν 105


XX

Certain facts about the birth, life and character of the poet Euripides, and about the end of his life 105


XXI

That by the poets the sons of Jupiter are represented as most wise and refined, but those of Neptune as very haughty and rude 109


XXII

A story of the distinguished leader Sertorius; of his cunning, and of the clever devices which he used to control and conciliate his barbarian soldiers 109


XXIII

Of the age of the famous historians, Hellanicus, Herodotus and Thucydides 113


XXIV

Vulcacius Sedigitus' canon of the Latin writers of comedy, from the book which he wrote On Poets 113


XXV

Of certain new words which I had met in the Mimiambics of Gnaeus Matius 115


XXVI

In what words the philosopher Aristotle defined a syllogism; and an interpretation of his definition in Latin terms 117

[p. xiii]


XXVII

The meaning of comitia calata, curiata, centuriata and tributa, and of concilium; and other related matters of the same kind 117


XXVIII

That Cornelius Nepos was in error when he wrote that Cicero defended Sextus Roscius at the age of twenty-three 121


XXIX

A new form of expression used by Lucius Piso, the writer of annals 123


XXX

Whether the word petorritum, applied to a vehicle, is Greek or Gallic 125


XXXI

A message sent by the Rhodians about the celebrated statue of Ialysus to Demetrius, leader of the enemy, at the time when they were besieged by him 127

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