r in sense than _omittere_, 'to pass by,
neglect'. Cf. 65 _contemni_, _despici_. -- OPTIMUS QUISQUE: see A. 93, _c_;
G. 305; H. 458, 1.

P. 19. -- 44. CRUDITATE: 'indigestion'. -- INSOMNIIS: 'sleeplessness'; the
singular _insomnium_ occurs only once in prose (Tac. Ann. 11, 4).
_Insomnia, ae_ is found only in poetry and late prose. -- DIVINE: this word
in Cic. often means nothing more than 'splendidly', 'extraordinarily'. --
ESCAM MALORUM: 'an enticement to evil' (_esca_ = _ed-ca_, from the root of
_edo_). Plato in the Timaeus 69 D (a dialogue translated into Latin by
Cicero, a fragment of whose translation is still preserved) has [Greek:
hedonen megiston kakou delear]. Cf. also Cic. Hortensius fr. 76 (ed. Halm)
_voluptates corporis quae vere et graviter a Platone dictae sunt illecebrae
esse atque escae malorum_. -- MODICIS: for the sake of variety Cic. chooses
this, not _moderatis_, as the opposite of _immoderatis_. Trans. 'a moderate
amount of goodfellowship'. -- M.F. = _Marci filium_. -- DEVICERAT:
pluperfect where a modern would incline to use a perfect. The battle
referred to is that of Mylae, fought in 260; its memory was perpetuated by
the decking of the _forum_ with the _rostra_ of the captured ships; the
_columna rostrata_ bore a long inscription, a restored version of which
still exists. -- CENA: so best spelt; some good texts still print _caena_,
but _coena_ is decidedly wrong, being based on the fiction that the Latin
borrowed the Greek word [Greek: koine] and turned it into _coena_. -- CEREO
FUNALI: 'the torch-light'; _cereo_, the em. of Mommsen for _crebro_; the
_funale_ was a torch composed of withs or twigs twisted into a rope
(_funis_) and dipped in pitch or oil. -- SIBI ... SUMPSERAT: Cic. seems to
think that Duillius assumed these honors on his own authority. This was
probably not the case; they were most likely conferred on him by a vote of
the _comitia tributa_. Cf. Liv. epit. 17 _C. Duillius primus omnium
Romanorum ducum navalis victoriae duxit triumphum, ob quam causam ei
perpetuus quoque honos habitus est, ut revertenti a cena tibicine canente
funale praeferretur_. No other instance is known where these particular
distinctions were decreed; the nearest parallel lies in the right accorded
to Paulus Macedonicus and to Pompeius to wear the triumphal _toga picta_
for life on each occasion of the _ludi_. It may be conjectured that the
music and the torch were part of the ceremony on the evening of a triu