[96] Gruter, p. 797.
[97] Orelli, 4623.
[98] Fabretti, p. 275, where many similar examples are collected.
[99] Gruter, p. 813, 3.
[100] Gruter, p. 1036, 2. Liberties are taken with prosody in this as in other poetical epitaphs.
[101] Gruter, p. 758, 4.
[102] Gruter, p. 435, 2.
[103] See his exhortation in Gellius, Noct. Att. 12, 1.
[104] Fabretti, p. 187. That feeding by hand was also common among the Romans is evident from the occurrence of earthen bottles used for this purpose. The Museum of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society contains several specimens of them. See also the Abbé Cochet’s Normandie Souterraine, p. 130.
[105] Orelli, 4604.