[340]. Menander’s verse, “Ὃν οἱ θεοὶ φιλοῦσιν ἀποθνήσκει νέος,” is indeed translated into Latin in a Roman epitaph (Dessau, 8481).
[341]. In Greek, βιοθάνατος is a popular form for βιαιοθάνατος. In Latin biaeothanatus is found only in Tertull., De Anima, 57, biothanatus everywhere else.
[342]. Aen., VI, 477 ss.
[343]. Horace, Od., III, 2, 21; cf. Introd., p. 13; Lecture IV, p. 113.
[344]. Joseph., Bell. Iud., VI, 5, § 47.
[345]. Servius, Aen., XII, 603.
[346]. Pliny, N. H., II, 63, § 156.
[347]. Dessau, Inscr. sel., 7846: “Extra auctorateis et quei sibei [la]queo manu attulissent et quei quaestum spurcum professi essent.”
[348]. Ibid., 7212, II, 5.
[349]. Plut., Cato, 68.