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