capitis minor: caput is status; capitis deminutio is total or partial loss of civic rights. Cf. Liv. 22.60, sero nunc desideratis, deminuti capite, abalienati iure civium, servi Carthaginiensium facti. With heroic Roman pedantry Regulus, applying this technicality to himself, declined to speak from his place in the Senate (Cic. de Off. 3.27) or to claim the rights of a paterfamilias. The genitive capitis with minor is on the analogy of such genitives as integer vitae, etc. Cf. 1.22.1. n
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Horace. Odes and Epodes. Edited with commentary by. Paul Shorey. revised by. Paul Shorey and Gordon J. Laing. New York. Benj. H. Sanborn and Co. 1910.
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