[127] ‘Optume Graiugenum.’ Serv. has a curious note: “Quantum ad Aenean pertinet, Graeci neque boni neque meliores sunt. Ergo ‘optume Graiugenum’ superlativus est pro positivo: nam optumus malorum non possumus dicere: superlativus enim suo tantum iungitur generi. Sic ergo dixit ut Homerus (Il. 11. 832) δικαιότατος κενταύρων pro δίκαιος.” ‘Precari’ with dat., like “supplicare,” in the sense of becoming a suppliant to a person. Elsewhere the dat. is used of the person for whom good or bad is imprecated.
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