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[1952] Lamia. Cf. lib. xx., Fr. 1. Oxyodontes. Scaliger's emendation for Ixiodontes. Gumiæ. Vid. lib. iv., Fr. 1.
[1953] Leonem ægrotum. Horace has copied the fable, i., Epist. i., 73, "Olim quod vulpes ægroto cauta leoni respondit, referam. Quia me vestigia terrent omnia te advorsum spectantia, nulla retrorsum."
[1954] Deductus, "tenuis; a lanâ quæ ad tenuitatem nendo deducitur." Serv. Cf. Virg., Ecl., vi., 5, "pastorem pingues pascere oportet oves, deductum dicere carmen."
[1955] Invitare, Nonius explains by "repleri," and quotes Sallust. Hist., "Se ibi cibo vinoque invitarent." So Plaut., Amph., I., i., 130, "Invitavit sese in cœna plusculum." Suet., Aug., 77, "quoties largissimè se invitaret senos sextantes non excessit." Dapsilius. So "Dapsiliter suos amicos alit." Næv. ap. Charis.
[1956] Pretium, "præmium." Non. Virg., Æn., v., 111, "Et palmæ pretium victoribus."
[1957] Proscindere. Cf. Varr., R. R., i., 29, "terram quum primum arant proscindere appellant: quum iterum, affringere quod primâ aratione gleba grandes solent excitari." Virg., Georg., ii., 237. Ov., Met., vii., 219.
[1958] Lege, "Omnia tum endo mucho (μυχῷ) videas fervente micare."—Turnebe's emendation.
[1959] The invention of bits is ascribed by Pliny and Virgil to the Thessalian Lapithæ. Plin., vii., 56. Virg., Georg., iii., 15, "Frena Pelethronii Lapithæ, gyrosque dedere." Cf. Lucan., Phars., vi., 396, seq. Val. Flac., i., 424, "Oraque Thessalico melior contundere fræno Castor." Gerlach proposes, therefore, to read equam for acrem, as young ladies are often compared by the poets to fillies. Cf. Hor., iii., Od. xi., 9, "Quæ velut latis equa trima campis, ludit exultim." Anacr., Fr. 75. Heraclid. Pont., All. Hom., p. 16. [Vid. Theogn., 257. Arist., Lys., 1308. Eurip., Hec., 144. Hip., 546.]
[1960] Commentavi. The words of an adulterous wife, inventing some excuse to keep her assignation. Aurifex. Cf. Plaut., Aul., III., v., 34. Cic., Orat., ii., 38.