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 school, Fronto's, I. 130; his secta, II. 36

scorpion in bed, I. 197

scythes of Dacians, II. 204

sea, I. 27

seaside resort, II. 7

Senate, decision in, I. 173; sitting of, I. 133, 189, II. 123; M. asked his opinion in, I. 8; journals of, I. Ill; his3peech in, I. 189

sewer, coins in, II. 105

shepherds, adventure with, I. 151

shrine, deserted, I. 45; township full of shrines, I. 175

shell-fish, II. 7

Sibyl, I. 91

siesta, II. 5

similes and their use, I. 35, 37, 39, 130 ff., 205; fever and exercise, I. 23; fountains and rivers, I. 23; flies and gnats, I. 25; robes, I. 40, 121; II. 53; priest and farmer, I. 45; growth of trees, I. 49; clarion and pipes, I. 53; ants and spiders, I. 48; hot springs, I. 87; saffron scents from a distance, I. 97; Pyrrhic reel, I. 99; a farmer, M. I. 117; speed of horses, I. 123; II. 103; hyena, snakes, spears and arrows, ships, lines, I. 133; fowls, II. 141; midwife, II. 141; painting, II. 161; 6vos Xvpas, II. 141n.; Orpheus, II. 145; Ialysus picture, I. 135; lame Hephaestus, I. 135; bleating, I. 137; race in stadium, i. 149; flowers and garlands, I. 165; II. 125, 185: pot herbs in golden dish, I. 165; dreams, I. 205; animals and their young, I. 259; bow, ii. 9; winking, II. 9; gardens and manure, II. 9; bulls, II. 27; parents and children, II. 37; leather bottle, M. ii. 39; rowing and sailing, II. 39; hospitality, II. 51; banquet, II. 50, 53; recruiting, II. 55; coinage, II. 55, 113; women's hair, II. 61; poultice, II. 63; swimming and flying, II. 67; swords, II. 69; light (? Sallust), II. 97; wind and sun, II. 123, 127; helmets, ii. 137; pipes, II. 139; lightning, II. 183; journey, II. 185; harvest and vintage, II. 185; torches, II 185; cavalry and warships, I 181; fire fanned by breeze, II 199; tall trees and wind, n 215; spinning, II. 225; in spection of victims, II. 241 helmsman, II. 251; island Aenaria, I. 35, 39; see also Beltrami, La tenderize letterarie del Frontone, p. 39

slang, "horribiliter," M. I. 130; ? pinguis, F. (a "fat" fortune), II. 227

slave, fugitive, I. Ill; emancipated in arena, I. 119; present of two slaves, I. 264

sleep, argument against, I. 91; iu quarrel of day and night, II. 13; begotten by Jove, ii. i7; death's counterfeit, I. 97; instructor of Ennius, II. 67; Marcus and sleep, see under Marcus.

smoke, praise of, I. 44; of one's fatherland, I. 95, 192; and watery eyes, I. 87

snakes, I. 133; and lizards and the Marsi, II. 23

soldiers, demoralised in Syria, II. 149, 207 (Trajan), 209; in Jugurthine war (Sallust), II. 165: could not vault on horses, II. 149 spears feebly thrown by, II. 149 seasoned by small battles, II 149; sloth fatal to, II. 209 . dandy ways of Syrian soldiers of gaucherie of Pannonians, II. 211; discipline and duty of general, II. 211

son, a complimentary title, I. 308

sovranty, dependent on eloquence, II. 119

soporific juice, II. 17

speech, insincerities of, I. 101; forensic, etc., I. 41; useful for generals in the field, II. 31

spiders, I. 48

spolia opima, II. 10

stage, sham lances of, II. 109; see also under actonj

stammering, II. 73, 109

statues of Arion at Taenarus, I. 69; of Cato, II. 3, 201

style, different in art and philosophy II. 49 364