Petronii Cena Trimalchionis Author:Petronius Arbiter Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: REFERENCES AND ABBREVIATIONS. A Allen and Greenough's Grammar. H Harkness' Grammar. M Madvig's Grammar. B. G. ..Becker's Callus. , Bn Burmann: Tex... more »t with Commentary, Utrecht, 1709. Br Buecheler: Text with various readings, Third edition, Berlin, 1882. Co. Cesareo: De Petronii Sermone, Rome, 1887. Dict. Antiqq. Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, revised and enlarged, 1890. Fr. Friedlander: Text with German version and notes, Leipsic, 1891. Hy Hayley: Manuscript Glossary. Lex... Harper's Latin Dictionary. Rh Rich : Dictionary of Antiquities. Se. Segebade: Observations Grammaticae et Criticae in Petronium, Halle, 1880. NOTES. 1. Venerat—dies, etc. Before this sentence there is a gap in the text, so that the connection cannot be known. Instead of id est, et ought to be written unless the epitomizer has added these words. Br. The connection of the two members by id est is to be attributed to the greatly abridging epitomizer. Fr. ; whose version reads und mit ihm. Liberae cenae, open table. Lex. The phrase properly means farewell dinner, the feast given to gladiators on the day before they fought. It was probably added by the epitomizer, who had in mind some description of a libera cena found in some part of the satire not now extant. Hy. The phrase cannot here be possibly understood in its literal meaning, but simply refers to the banquet of Trimalchio. Fr. Unus, here indefinite, like quidam, frequently so used in colloquial Latin. 2. Agamem.non.is, a rhetorician whose pupils Encolpius and Ascyltos had been,,and with whom the former had been conversing at the opening of the extant fragments of the Satyricon. Because of their connection with him they were invited and were now accompanying him to the banquet. Trepidante...« less