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[1871] Propitius is sometimes applied to human beings as well as to deities. Cf. Ter., Adelph., I., i., 6, "Uxor quæ in animo cogitat irata, quam illa quæ parentes propitii." Cic., Att., viii., 16, "hunc propitium sperant, illum iratum putant." The last line is very corrupt. Gerlach proposes to read "soliditas propositi," which is scarcely tenable.
[1872] Inscriptum, any thing contraband, not entered or marked at the custom-house, portitorium. Varr., R. R., II., i., 16.
[1873] Gerlach reads factis instead of fictis, which Nonius must have followed. Cf. Hor., i., Sat. x., 58, "Num rerum dura negarit Versiculos natura magis factos et euntes mollius." Cic., de Orat., iii., 48, "Oratio polita et facta quodammodo." So in Greek, κατειργασμένος· πεποιημένος. Longin., viii.
[1874] Strabo. Cf. Hor., i., Epist. xiv., 37, "Non istic obliquo oculo mea commoda quisquam limat." To this Varro opposes "integris oculis."
[1875] Cf. Hor., A. P., 310, "Rem tibi Socraticæ poterunt ostendere chartæ."
[1876] Monogrammi. Cf. lib. ii., Fr. 17.
[1877] Papulæ. Cf. Sen., Vit. Beat., 27, "Papulas observatis alienas, obsiti plurimis ulceribus." Virg., Georg., iii., 564.
[1878] Maltha is properly a thick unctuous excretion; fossil tar or petroleum; thence used, like our English "sap," for an effeminate fool: perhaps from the Greek μαλακός.
[1879] Cernuus. Cf. iii., Fr. 20. Properly "one who falls on his face;" then applied to a mountebank or tumbler, throwing somersaults; a πεταυριστὴς· κυβιστητήρ. Cf. "jactata petauro corpora," Juv., xiv., 265, with the note. Lucil., Fr. inc. 40. Collus is the older form of collum.
[1880] Very corrupt: the reading followed is adopted by Dusa and Gerlach.
[1881] Pernicis. Cf. Hor., Epod. ii., 42, "Pernicis uxor Appuli."
[1882] Excidere Nonius explains by dissentire.
[1883] Cf. Plaut., Curc., I., i., 47, "Ego cum illâ facere nolo mutuum."
[1884] Cibicidas, i. e., "slaves," a humorous word, "consumers of food."
[1885] Cf. ad xxviii., 44.
[1886] Sospitat, a religious phrase, properly "to preserve, protect." Plaut., Amph., III., viii., 501, Hild., "Dii plus plusque istuc sospitent." So Ennius, "regnum sospitent superstitentque." Impertit. Cf. Cic., Att., ii., 12, "Terentia impertit tibi multam salutem."