^{page 27 note 1} Cf. Housman, , Manil. I, Introd., p. xli.Google Scholar

^{page 28 note 1} See Mueller, L., De re metrica, pp. 331., where statistics are given of its occurrence in various poets.Google Scholar

^{page 28 note 2} Cf. 11. 61. 4 ‘(obscena Leda) fornicem ff., cludit.’

^{page 28 note 3} J. Phil, xxix, 1904, p. 59.Google Scholar

^{page 28 note 4} Eranos xiii, 1913, pp. 206Google Scholar

^{page 28 note 5} Archiv f. lat. Lex. xiii. 279.Google Scholar

^{page 29 note 1} Fish is sometimes cooked wrapped in paper at the present day both in this country and elsewhere. Cf. Mrs. Beeton s. Red mullet and Trout.

^{page 29 note 2} scrinia are not indeed necessarily book-boxes; scrinium unguentorum in Plin. Nat. 7. 29. 108 and 13. 1. 3 suggests that they may be receptaclesfor anything one cares to put in them.

^{page 30 note 1} The passage is wrongly noted in the Thes. s.v. 2004. 75 under the substantival use = socius, sodalis, etc.; it is clear that compare corresponds to similem.

^{page 30 note 2} similis is used precisely as in 12. 31. 6 ‘gerit similes candida turris aues’, where similes can only mean that the birds are candidae like the turris (not ‘like to one another’, as K. suggests).

^{page 30 note 3} Class. Rev. xlv, 1931, p. 82.Google Scholar

^{page 30 note 4} Mayor on Juv. loc. cit. adds Hieron. Epist. 133. 13. 3 ‘unum, aut ut multum, tres homunculos’ and Leo Serm. 16. 4 ‘puella… ut multum decennis’.

^{page 31 note 1} terque quaterque would suggest frequency; cf. Virg. Aen. 1. 94 ‘o terque quaterque beati’.

^{page 31 note 2} Orig. 18. 7. 4 (referred to by Heraeus); he does not quote M.'s precise words and has expectantque leones.