[1896] Committere, Nonius explains by "conjungere, sociare." Cf. Virg., Æn., iii., "Delphinum caudas utero commissa luporum." Ov., Met, xii., 478, "Quà vir equo commissus erat."
[1897] Nonius quotes this passage as an instance of "convenire" used in the sense of "interpellare."
[1898] Altilium. Cf. Juv., v., 168, "Ad nos jam veniet minor altilis." Hor., i., Ep. vii., 35, "Nec somnum plebis laudo satur altilium." Cf. iv., Fr. 5.
[1899] Argutamini. Cf. Enn. ap. Non., "Exerce linguam ut argutarier possis." Næv., ibid., "totum diem argutatur quasi cicada." Plaut., Amp., I., i., 196, "Pergin argutarier?" Bacch., I., ii., 19, "Etiam me advorsus exordire argutias?"
[1900] Percitus is commonly used by the comic writers for the excitement of any strong passion, as love, anger, etc.
[1901] Centenarias. So pondere centenario. Plin., vii., 20. Cf. ad lib. v., Fr. 22.
[1902] Hopelessly corrupt. Dusa proposes puer.
[1903] Confectores. Connected probably with Fr. 20, and referring to the violent entrances lovers used to effect into the houses of their mistresses. Cf. lib. iv., Fr. 15; xxix., Fr. 47. Hor., iii., Od. xxvi., 7. Where Zumpt explains vectes as instruments which "adhibebantur ad fores effringendas." Conficere, i. e., frangere. Nonius.
[1904] Subsecivus is properly applied to that which is "cut off and left remaining over and above," as land in surveying, etc. So horæ subsecivæ, tempus subsecivum, "leisure hours, odd times," used by Cicero and Pliny. So Seneca says of philosophy, "Exercet regnum suum: dat tempus non accipit. Non est res subseciva: ordinaria est, domina est: adest et jubet." Cf. the Greek phrase ἐκ παρέργου.
[1905] Concredidit. Plaut., Aul., Prol., 6.