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I. Admiranda quaedam ex annalibus sumpta de P.
Africano superiore.

II. De Caeselli Vindicis pudendo errore, quem offendi-
mus in libris eius quos inscripsit Lectionum Anti-
quarum

III. Quid Tiro Tullius, Ciceronis libertus, reprehenderit in M. Catonis oratione quam pro Rodiensibus in senatu dixit; et quid ad ea, quae reprehenderat, responderimus.

IV. Cuiusmodi servos et quam ob causam Caelius Sabinus, iuris civilis auctor, pilleatos venundari solitos scripserit; et quae mancipia sub corona more maiorum venierint; atque id ipsum "sub corona" quid sit

V. Historia de Polo histrione memoratu digua.

VI. Quid de quorundam sensuum naturali defectione
Aristoteles scripserit

VII. An "affatim," quasi "admodum," prima acuta
pronuntiandum sit; et quaedam itidem
incuriose tractata super aliarum Vocum
tibus

non accen

VIII. Res ultra fidem tradita super amatore delphino et puero amato

IX. "Peposci " et "memordi," "pepugi" et "spepondi" et "cecurri" plerosque veterum dixisse, non, uti postea receptum est dicere, per o aut per u litteram in prima syllaba positam, atque id eos Graecae rationis exemplo dixisse; praeterea notatum quod viri non indocti neque ignobiles a verbo descendo," non descendi,' sed "descendidi," dixerunt

CHAPTER HEADINGS OF

BOOK VI

I. Some remarkable stories about the elder Publius
Africanus, drawn from the annals

II. Of a disgraceful blunder of Caesellius Vindex, which
we find in his work entitled Early Words

III. What Tullius Tiro, Cicero's freedman, criticized in
the speech which Marcus Cato delivered in the
senate in defence of the Rhodians; and our answer
to his strictures.

IV. What sort of slaves Caelius Sabinus, the writer on
civil law, said were commonly sold with caps on
their heads, and why; and what chattels were sold
under a crown in the days of our forefathers; and the
meaning of that same expression "under a crown".
V. A noteworthy story about the actor Polus
VI. What Aristotle wrote of the congenital absence of
some of the senses

VII. Whether affatim, like admodum, should be pronounced with the acute accent on the first syllable; with some painstaking observations on the accents of other words

VIII. An incredible story about a dolphin which loved a boy.

IX. That many early writers used peposci, memordi, pepugi and cecurri, and not, as was afterwards customary, forms with o or u in the first syllable, and that in so doing they said that they followed Greek usage; that it has further been observed that men who were neither unlearned nor obscure made from the verb descendo, not descendi, but descendidi

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X. Ut 66
'ususcapio" copulate recto vocabuli casu
dicitur, ita "pignoriscapio"
vocabuli forma dictum esse

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XI. Neque "levitatem" neque "nequitiam ea significatione esse qua in volgi sermonibus dicuntur

XII. De tunicis chiridotis ; quod earum
Africanus Sulpicio Gallo obiecit

usum P.

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XIII. Quem "classicum " "infra classem.".

dicat M. Cato, quem

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XIV. De tribus dicendi generibus; ac de tribus philosophis qui ab Atheniensibus ad senatum Romam legati missi sunt .

XV. Quam severe moribus maiorum in fures vindicatum sit; et quid scripserit Mucius Scaevola super eo quod servandum datum commodatumve esset

XVI. Locus exscriptus ex satura M. Varronis, quae Περὶ Ἐδεσμάτων inscripta est, de peregrinis ciborum generibus; et appositi versus Euripidi, quibus delicatorum hominum luxuriantem gulam confutavit

XVII. Sermo habitus cum grammatico insolentiarum et inperitiarum pleno de significatione vocabuli quod est "obnoxius"; deque eius vocis origine

XVIII. De observata custoditaque apud Romanos iurisiurandi sanctimonia; atque inibi de decem captivis, quos Romam Hannibal deiurio ab his accepto legavit

XIX. Historia ex annalibus sumpta de Tiberio Graccho, Gracchorum patre, tribuno plebis; atque inibi tribunicia decreta cum ipsis verbis relata.