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NOTES. 113<br />

1397. ioca, p lur. oiiocus \ zolocaixom locus, sibilajxom sihilus .<br />

1400. floribus is abl. of insfynmpnt. nffer plexis,- ' plaitedwiih<br />

flowers '.<br />

1401. ''^<br />

extra numeru m,'^ out of step ' ; the opposite of in numerum.<br />

* \i.oi. ''<br />

^'(/uritcr:' ^ ' clumsilY '<br />

; see n. to uniter, 1. ^j,"]. terram pccfe<br />

pellere: comp. Hor. Od. iii 18 15 gaudet invisam pepulisse fossor ter<br />

pede terram. ^5-<br />

1405. hinc — ab hoc, i.e. from music. • solacia somni\ ' consolations<br />

for the want of s leep ' ; so the watchman on the roof of Agamemnon's<br />

palace sang to himself as vitvov avTl/jLoXirov (xkos (Aesch. Agam. 16, 17).<br />

1406. ducere,flectere, and percurrere are used as nouns in the nom,<br />

case, in apposition with solacia.<br />

multimodis: see n. to omnimodis, 1. 190.<br />

1407. siipera: preposition.<br />

•j^^iiC^^W labro : comp. Browning's Pied Piper of Hamelin vii ' to blow<br />

*• the pipe his lips he wrinkled '.<br />

1408. 'and even now watchmen keep the tradition fliey have<br />

quibus and goes with accepta. vi^iles 1<br />

received from them ; unde—a '<br />

may be the sentinels in a camp or the watchmen in a town ; in imperia l I W »<br />

Rome there were 7000 vi^iles, t heir chief dutv being to extipguish I<br />

fires.<br />

1409. ro-^wj is the adverb. hilo: abl. of amount of difference: the<br />

acc. occurs 1. 358. . ^<br />

1410. ?«/ifr^a = /(7Wif«; see n. to 1. 83. 'dulcedini^ fntctum', '<br />

enjoyment<br />

of deli^ht ' ; the phrase occurs before, ii 971.<br />

1412. praesto: adverb.<br />

141 3. inpritnis is often written as one word.<br />

1414. illa is acc. plur. neut. ; reperta is nom. sing. fem. , agreeing<br />

with res. posterior may be translated by an adverb.<br />

^ i.t T s. -sensff^- ' our feey ^ips . -orf, m regard tp . —"^<br />

1416. coepit, sc. esse; comp. Juvenal iii 114 et quando coepit<br />

Grcucorum mentio. relitta sunt is the verb ; for the separation of the<br />

words, see n. to 1. 90.<br />

jj, ^^<br />

141 7. strata herbis is an epithet olcubilia. frondibus atuta: comp.^jCu^teXw^<br />

ignibus aucta,\. 111.<br />

^:, ^Jr. T ,< I n. " • au^<br />

~<br />

.^.AiguJ:<br />

1418. _peUis: gen. sing. contempta, ' jnto confemplT '.<br />

=huamvis eam. invidia...repertam,<br />

' was so envied<br />

formerly wheiTdiscovered ' ; invidia is abl. of attendant circumstances .<br />

1420. gessit { = i

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