A Plea for Livy: With Critical Notes On His First book
A Plea for Livy: With Critical Notes On His First book
Thomas Henry Dyer
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Ibid. p. 132, 18. vehL It was in a curru arcuato that the vestals rode. Livy aays that it was used in the worship of Fides, to show ihat faith should be carefully guarded— /{c2em iutandam. A traly wonderful misinterpretation of a very plain passage. Faith was not symbolized by the mirriM, but by the covering of theright hand. Ch. xxir, p. 138, 1. eay>etant. Below (23, 4) we have W^^I^^^WWW^iWW^Wi^ifP^PipWWRH^WPW Digitized by V^OOQ IC iiMiirniuri iii'Mi. A PLEA FOB UVT* 17 this word used activel...y. 'See also in 3, 40, and more than once in Cicero. . It is possible to take it so here, making dii the subject Ik^petere, when used actiYely, requires an ablative of the person, when one is named, with ab ; when used as a neuter, it takes the aoa of the person with in. From this note a student would infer that it is good Latin to say 'expetere jpcetuu in aliquem! for 'to exact punishment' from him. When the Fro- feasor refers to the next chapter, ^tn omne nomen AJbanum expetiturum pomas,^ he should have told the student that it is at all events an &ira( XeySfuPov, and that there can be very little doubt that the text is corrupt.
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