Imitetur. Resembles painting and colored outlines or figures.
Aperire. Poetice==excavate. Cellars under ground were unknown to the Romans. See Beck. Gal., and Smith's Dict. Ant.
Ignorantur—fallunt. They are not known to exist, or else (though known to exist) they escape discovery from the very fact that they must be sought (in order to be found). Gün. calls attention to the multiform enallage in this sentence: 1. in number (populatur, ignorantur, fallunt); 2. of the active, passive, and deponent verbs; 3. in the change of cases (aperta, acc.; abdita and defossa, nom.).
XVII. Sagum. A short, thick cloak, worn by Roman soldiers and countrymen.
Fibula==figibula, any artificial fastening; spina==natural.
Si desit. Observe the difference between this clause, and si quando advenit in the preceding chapter. This is a mere supposition without regard to fact; that implies an expectation, that the case will sometimes happen.
Cetera intecti. Uncovered as to the rest of the body, cf. 6: nudi aut sagulo leves.
Totos dies. Acc. of duration of time.—Agunt==vivunt. K.
Fluitante. The flowing robe of the southern and eastern nations; stricta, the close dress and short clothes of the northern nations.
Artus exprimente. Quae tam arte artus includit, ut emineant, earumque lineamenta et forma appareant, K. K. and Gr. understand this of coat and vest, as well as breeches; Gün. of breeches only.