Elizabeth Hickman Du Bois
Published: 2012-02
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Enos Lases iuvate. ? three times Neve luem ruem Marmar, ], s- ' r three times sins mcurrere in pleores. J Satur fu fere Ma(vo)rs 1 /. ', ' r three times hmen sail sta berber J three times Semunis alternei advocapit cunctos Enos Marmor iuvato ? three times /, f Triumpe, tnumpe, trmtnpe triumpe, triumpe (triumpe). The prayer to Jupiter Dapalis, quoted by Cato:1? Jupiter Dapalis quod tibi fieri f oportet in-domo familia mea ' ' ' calignam vini dapi f f f eius rei ergo macte illace dape pollucenda esto. The Drinking-song from Varro.2 Zander unnecessarily changes the order of the words. ' ' ' f. Novum vetus vinum bibo, Novo veteri morbo medeor. A charm against foot-ache, quoted by Varro.3 The person using this charm was to sing it overtwenty-seven times, to touch the ground, and to spit. 1 De R. R. c. 132. 2 De L. L. vi. 21. 8 De R. R. i. 12, 27. Terra pestem teneto Salus hie maneto. A charm against sprains, quoted by Cato: l ? f f r Huat, hanat, huat ista, pista, sista. / / dannabo danna ustra. A charm against tumours and inflammations quoted by Pliny.2 The person was to say it over three times and spit on the ground three times. Reseda, morbis, reseda f t f scin, scin quis hic-pullus egerit radices nee caput nee pedes habeant. An old saw quoted by Festus, p. 93: ? Hiberno pulvere verno luto Grandia farra, camille metes. The words of the goal-post, which marks the end of the race, to the defeated runner, quoted by Porphyrio on Horace:8 ? / f / Quisquis ad me novissimus venerit, habeat, scabiem. Lucien Miiller rewrites, Habeat scabiem quisquis 1 De R. R. c. 160. 3 Hist. Nat. xxvii. 131. 8 Ars Pottica, 1. 417. ad me venerit novissimus, d...