Submitted by admin on Sun, 09/17/2023 - 07:44
From Gino Mazzoni's commentary on pro Marcello 2: Dolebam enim, patres conscript, et vehementer angebar virum talem, cum in eadem causa in qua ego fuisset, non in eadem esse fortuna
Submitted by admin on Fri, 06/03/2022 - 08:30
sta ilico- in Plautus and Terence
Submitted by admin on Wed, 12/08/2021 - 07:45
..et in ea est haeresi quae nullum sequitur florem orationis neque diltatat argumentum (Cic. Paradoxa Stoicorum) - .. does not expand upon the proof/argument
Submitted by admin on Wed, 09/01/2021 - 09:22
Plautus Casina 16-19:
haec (fabula) cum primum acta est, vicit omnis fabulas
ea tempestate flos poetarum fuit,
qui nunc abierunt hinc in communem locum
Submitted by admin on Sat, 08/14/2021 - 14:56
avi reliqiias persequi - to take up where your grandfather left off- Cicero de Senectute 19: Quam palmam utinam di immortales, Scipio, tibi reservent, ut avi reliquias persequare. This usage is cited by Castiglioni Mariotti. Lewis and Short cites it also
Submitted by admin on Sat, 07/17/2021 - 10:02
Multae etiam, ut in homine Romano, litterae - and also very well read for a Roman - Cic. de Sen 12 (translation by Philip Freeman)
Submitted by admin on Thu, 03/11/2021 - 18:08
From the Barnabe Itinerarium (Boream) O Faustule! tende palmam, accipe calicem vitibus almam! Tunc vinctus es dolore? uvae tinctus sis colore. Sperne opes, sperne dapes, merge curas, recte sapis.
Cf. mergo in the context of drinking to excess: potatio quae merget Sen. Ep. 12 (LS)
Submitted by admin on Sun, 02/14/2021 - 08:35
See G.H. Nalls' note on proArchia 1 vel in primis. He also cites pro Roscio Amerino 6: vel potentissimus hoc tempore nostrae civitatis. He says vel in these cases weakens the superlative. although otherwise it often strengthens it.
Submitted by admin on Sun, 02/14/2021 - 08:26
summum, ad summum - at the latest
scies igitur fortasse cras summum perendie Cic. ad Att. 12, 44 Quando emes ea quae decrevisti? Cras, ut spero, aut ad summum perendie (unknown source); Exspectabam hodie aut summum cras Cic ad Att 13 , 21 ,2
Submitted by admin on Sun, 10/18/2020 - 07:49
navigare monoxylis naviculis consueverunt quod unum navigii genus natum est in illis regionibus canoae patrio vocabulo nominatur - Iohannes Genesius Sepulveda
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