This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: …being surprised by Hephaestus in adultery with Ares. At this point Labrax approaches the cottage. 762. For heus, ‘ havkye, ’ standing after a sentence, cf. 830 heus uos. 763. messis mergis (allit.) pugneis, ‘I’ll make hay in your face with a fisty fork’: mcrgae (plur.). a two-pronged pitchfork, used for tossing hay or corn; cf. Amph. I. 1. 142 hospitio pugneo, ‘a fisty welcome.’ Scan tfbi flet with original long vowel. 764. ficis aridis, which require no cooking. 765. eiquidem (cf. on 1061) copiast, ‘on condition that I have leave.’ 766. aliquo, ‘somewhere else, ’ cf. aliquis 135. Hiatus at diaeresis. 767. quinequine, ‘by which, ’ cf. quaene 273, quin 861, Trin. 360, quemne 1019, quodne 1231. inhumanum, ‘the inhumanity, ’ cf. on 620 inpudenti. 768. The fact that it was lawful to bur n or smoke out a refugee at the altar (cf. Most. 1114 and the Andromache of Euripides), though not to drag him away, illustrates the formalism of ancient religious usage, and may be compared with the custom of throwing poppy heads and figures made of rushes into the Tiber in place of the human offerings demanded by the river god. 769. coniciam, asyndeton, cf. 774. 770. ambustulatum, ‘ half-roasted’; = the Ciceronian semustilatus, pro Mil. 13, 33. It was a gross indignity to be left half burned (Postgate). magnis auibus, i.e. vultures. 77i-coniecturam, cf. 613. ilia aimla, cf. 598. 772. ingratiis = me inuito or inuitas, frequent in the comedians. Compare gratiis, ‘ for nothing, ’ abl. of gratiae, lit.‘ for mere thanks.’ 773. scin quid, with indie, very common: cf. on 356, 382 (scin tu T). oro cum, cf. on 709. 774. dum adduoo, ‘ till I (shall) bring, ’ cf. 879, 179. 775. ne depends on cura 776, ‘take care that he does not’ (i.e. ‘touch them, ’ interrupted by Daem.) 777. abitat:
