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15 are Epigrams on similar subjects, the one describing a, bee, the other an ant in a similar position. 1. HeUadum. Amber was said to be formed by the tears of the sisters of Phaetbon. Of. iv. 32. 1, FhaethonJtid^ gutta. ramls. Of. iv. 25. 2. 4. gelo. Used metaphorically of the hardening amber. 5. ne plaoeas. An apparent exception to the rule given, I. 70. 13, but the expression here is really elUptical. * l^e moral of this story is that you should not,* Ac., * This bids you not to, &c.' plaoea...s. dbi pUicere to pride or plume oneself upon a thing. LX. Death has no respect of places, healthy or unhealthy, it is no matter to him, since Ouiiatius is carried ofif by sickness at Tibur. 1. Ardea, a place in Latium, 24 miles from Bome. The unhealthiness of the neighbourhood probably accounts for the decay of the town. Silius ItaL i. 291, MagnanimU regnata virU nunc Ardea nomen, though Martial here only calls it un- healthy in summer, as he also calls Baiae. CaBtrana, tlie reading adopted by Sohneidewin, in his last (Teubner) edition, instead of Paestana.
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