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Selected letters, with notes by C.E. Prichard and E.R. Bernard (1872)
Selected letters with notes by CE Prichard and ER Bernard - 1872 Author:Pliny 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: iure vetustatis plurimum benevolentiae postulabunt ' Cic. Lael. 20. Nurses have their place both in the epic and the tragic poetry of Greece and Rome. Ep. 64.... more » 3. In Campaniam, perhaps to Baiae. Pliny the elder describes the whole coast as possessing ' vitalis ac perennis salubritas.' 6. Ecquid denique. Pliny is anxious to know if his wife is enjoying the delights of Campania without being retarded in her recovery by them. 7. TransmitiO means to let go by one, yet not so as to miss or neglect. By zeugma it is here joined to both ' secessus ' and ' voluptates.' Ep. 55. 6, Omnium quae decucurri candidatus, ' candidate for all the offices which I have successively enjoyed.' Compounds of ' curro ' may either retain or drop the augment. Cp. ' decursu honorum ' Cic. de Or. I. I. 12. Qnintiliauum : see on Ep. 20. 34. 13. Ventitabat = ftpotra. 15. In sonat a, where the magistrates were now elected, the result of the election being announced to the people who continued to meet for this purpose long after the loss of their power to elect. The elections retained their original name of ' comitia,' which properly belonged to the popular assembly. Cp. ' E campo comitia ad patres translata sunt ' Tac. Ann. I.15, This change was made under Tiberius. 24. Cum fratre, probably Julius Avitus, whose death is lamented in Ep. 5I. 28. Suffragio meo. On the importance of influential ' suffragatores ' see on Ep. 40. 2I. Ep. 5(3. I. Adfici: see on Ep. 24. 35. 3. In vestigio meo, in the place where I used to sit or lie. 'Vestigium a Latinis dicitur de loco ubi quis fuerit, licet vestigia ems appareant nulla ' Gierig. Cp. 'isdem vestigiis institisti ' Pan. 23. Ep. 57. i Socrus meae, Pompeia Celerina. Villam Alsiensem ; near Alsium, a seaside town of Etruiia. A list of Pom...« less