[p. 157] Further, in his Anna Peranna he uses 1 gubernius for pilot, and plans 2 for sycophant, and nanus for dwarf; but Marcus Cicero also wrote planus for sycophant in the speech which he delivered In Defence of Cluentius. 3 Moreover Laberius in the farce entitled The Saturnalia 4 calls a sausage bolulus and says homo levanna instead of levis or “slight.” In the Necyomantia too he uses the very vulgar expression cocio for what our forefathers called arillator or “haggler.” His words are these: 5
Two wives? More trouble this, the haggler (cocio) says;However, in the farce which he called Alexandrea, he used 7 the same Greek word which is in common use, but correctly and in good Latin form; for he put emplastrum in the neuter, not in the feminine gender, as those half-educated innovators of ours do. I quote the words of that farce:
Six aediles he had seen. 6
What is an oath? A plaster (emplastrum) for a debt.
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[8arg] The meaning of what the logicians call “an axiom,” and what it is called by our countrymen; and some other things which belong to the elements of the dialectic art.WHEN I wished to be introduced to the science of logic and instructed in it, it was necessary to take up and learn what the dialecticians call εἰσαγωγαί or “introductory exercises.” 8 Then because at first
