¹ In Mélanges d'Archéologie et d'Histoire (École Française de Rome), 10. 303-16 and Plate VI, without naming the collection in which it was. W. Fröhner, publishing it in La Collection Tyzskiewicz 27-8 and Plate XXIX, revealed the location and the ownership.

² A critical consideration of these legends is to be found in the next article in this issue of Language.

³ Pages 310-3.

⁴ Frohner accepts asom = assum ‘Ie rôti’. Difficulties in the formation of assum are raised by Conway, Ital. Dial. 2. 603, but are solved by views presented in Walde, Lat. etym. Wörtb.², S.V. areo.

⁵ Umbrian supine aso for assum shows a special Umbrian change of -um to -om, which cannot be used to support Praen. asom as a supine.

⁶ The citations from Plautus follow the text of Lindsay's Oxford edition. The Goetz and Schoell edition of 1898 reads assum also in Amph. 956, Capt. 978, Cure. 164, following good manuscript authority; and there is lesser warrant for assum in several other passages. Conversely, there is excellent authority for adsum at Poen. 279, where the pun requires assume.

⁷ Eeeum may fairly be included among these, since it has the same value in the sentence.