Chap. XX. What are commonly called " vivaria." The ancients did not use this word. What Publius Scipio used instead of it, in his fpeech to the people; and what afterwards Marcus Varro, in bis treatife "De re Ruftica" Page 139 Chap. XXI. Of the conftellation called by the Greeks apatav, by us feptemtriones, The meaning and origin of each word 142 Chap. XXII. Of the wind Iapyx. Names and regions of other winds, from the difcourfes of Favori nus 145 Chap, XXIII. A comparison and criticism of paffages from the play of Menander and Cæcilius, called Plocius 151 Chap. XXIV. The frugality of the ancients, and their fumptuary laws 157 Chap. XXV. What the Greeks call analogy, and what anomaly 161 Chap. XXVI. Difcourfes of M. Fronto and Favorinus the philofopher, on the varieties of colours, with the Greek and Latin terms for them. Of the colour Spadix 163 Chap. XXVII. What Caftricius thought of the paffages in Salluft and in Demofthenes, in which one defcribes Philip, and the other Sertorius 167 Chap. XXVIII. It does not appear to what deity facrifice fhould be offered when an earthquake happens 169 Chap. XXIX. Apologue of fop the Phrygian, ufeful to be remembered b 4 172 Chap, Chap. XXX. On the motion of the waves, and their different undulations, according to the blowing of the wind from the fouth or north Page 176 BOOK III. Chap. I. Enquiry into the reafon why Salluft affirmed that avarice emafculated not only the mind but the body 178 Chap. II. Which, according to Varro, is the birthday of thofe who are born before or after twelve o'clock at night of the spaces and duration of what are termed "civil days," obferved variously by all nations. What Quintus Mutius has written concerning a woman, whom ber husband did not legally take by ufe, because the period of a civil year was not accomplished 182 Chap. III. Of difinguishing and examining the plays of Plautus; fince promiscuously fome are with truth, others are falfely afcribed to him. Plautus wrote plays in the bakehoufe, Nævius in prifon 186 Chap. IV. Publius Africanus, and other men of rank, before they arrived at old age, ufually fhaved their beard and cheeks 192 Chap. V. The vice of luxury and effeminacy of carriage cenfured with feverity and wit, in a certain man, by Arcefilaus the philofopher 194 Chap. VI. Of the force and nature of the palmtree: that its wood refifts the weight laid upon it 195 Chap. VII. Story taken from the Annals, of Quintus Cædicius, a military tribune: paffage from the Origines of Cato, in which he compares the valour of Cedicius with that of the Spartan Leonidas 2 196 Chap. Chap. VIII. Celebrated letters of the confuls Caius Fabricius and Emilius, to king Pyrrhus, taken from Quintus Claudius the hiftorian Page 200 Chap. IX. What, and of what fort, was the horse which in the proverb is called " Equus Sejanus." Colour of the borfes called "fpadices;" meaning of that word 202 Chap. X. That in many affairs of nature, confidence is placed in the efficacy of the number feven, of which Varro treats at large in his " Hebdomades" 205 Chap. XI. The trifling arguments by which Accius attempts to prove, in bis Didafcalics, that Hefiod was prior to Homer 209 Chap. XII. That a drunkard was called "bilofus" by Publius Nigidius, a man of eminent learning, a term equally new and abfurd 211 Chap. XIII. That Demofthenes, while quite a youth, when he was the difciple of the philofopher Plato, bearing by chance Calliftratus, the orator, speak in a public affembly, ceafed to follow Plato, and attached bimfelf to Calliftratus 212 Chap. XIV. He fpeaks improperly who fays, " Dimidium librum legi," or, "dimidiam fabulam audivi,” with other expressions of the fame kind. That Marcus · Varro has affigned the caufe for fuch impropriety; and that none of the ancients were guilty of it 213 Chap. XV. That it is upon record, and in the memory of man, that great and unexpected joy has fuddenly brought death upon many, life being expelled, and unable to fuftain the violence of the fhock 216 Chap. Chap. XVI. The different periods at which women produce children, treated by phyficians and philofophers: opinions of ancient poets upon that fubject. Many other things worthy of record. Words of Hippocrates, the phyfician, from his treatife Teps Tpoons Page 218 Chap. XVII. It has been recorded by men of great authority, that Plato purchafed three books of Philolaus, the Pythagorean, and Ariftotle a few of Speufippus, the philofopher, at an incredible price 225 Chap. XVIII. Who were the "pedarii fenatores," and why fo called. The origin of those words from the confular edit, by which they are allowed to give their opinion in the fenate 227 Chap. XIX. The reafon, according to Gabius Baffus, why a man was called "parcus," and what he thought the meaning of that word; on the other hand, the manner in which Favorinus has ridiculed his tradition 229 BOOK IV. Chap. I. Difcourfe of Favorinus the philofopher in the Socratic method, to a boafting grammarian. Definition of the word "penus," from Quintus Scævola 231 Chap. II. Difference betwixt "morbus" and "vitium :" the power of these words in the edict of the adiles. Whether an eunuch, or barren woman, can be returned; different fentiments upon this subject 238 Chap. III. No actions on matrimonial difputes before the Carvilian divorce. The proper fignification of the word "pellex," and its derivation 242 Chap. Chap. IV. What Servius Sulpitius, in his book "De Dotibus," has written of the law and cuftom of ancient marriages Page 244 Chap. V. Story of the perfidy of the Etrufcan foothfayers; on which account this verfe was fung by the boys about the city of Rome: «Malum confilium confultori peffimum eft." 246 Chap. VI. The words of an ancient decree of the fenate, in which an expiation by the moft folemn facrifices was ordered, because the fpears of Mars had moved in the chapel. The terms "boftiæ fuccidanea” and " porca præcidanea" are explained. Capito Ateius called certain holidays "feriæ præcidanea" 248 Chap. VII. Of an Epiftle from Valerius Probus the grammarian, addressed to Marcellus, upon the accent certain Carthaginian words 251 Chap. VIII. What Caius Fabricius faid of Cornelius Rufinus, a covetous man, whom, though he hated him and was his enemy, he took care to have elected conful 252 Chap. IX. The proper meaning of "religiofus ;" the various fignifications to which it is applied: the words of Nigidius Figulus on this fubject, taken from bis Commentaries 255 Chap. X. The order of asking opinions, as obferved in the fenate. Difpute in the fenate between Caius Cefar the conful, and Marcus Cato, who confumed the whole day in fpeaking 258 Chap. XI. Certain more refined obfervations of Ariftoxenus upon Pythagoras, with fome fimilar remarks of Plutarch on the fame fubject 261 Chap. |