proleptic use. -- IDEM: a better form of the plural than _iidem_, commonly
found in our texts. For the use here cf. n. on 4 _eandem_. -- PERTINERE:
present for future. -- SENT ... PROSINT: the line is given as Ribbeck
prints it. He scans it as a '_bacchius_', consisting of four feet, with the
measurement | v - - |, the last syllable of _saeclo_ seeming to be
shortened. Cicero quotes the same line in Tusc. 1, 31 adding _ut ait
(Statius) in Synephebis, quid spectans nisi etiam postera saecla ad se
pertinere? Saeclo_ = 'generation'. For mood of _prosint_ see A 317; G. 632,
H. 497, I. -- STATIUS NOSTER: 'our fellow-countryman Statius'. So Arch. 22
_Ennius noster_. Caecilius Statius, born among the Insubres, wrote Latin
comedies which were largely borrowed from the Greek of Menander. The
original of the _Synephebi_ was Menander's Συνε φηβοι 'young comrades'. See
Sellar, Rom. Poets of the Rep., Ch. 7.

P. 11. -- 25. DIS: the spellings _diis_, _dii_ which many recent editors
still keep, are probably incorrect, at all events it is certain that the
nominative and ablative plural of deus formed monosyllables, except
occasionally in poetry, where _dei_, _deis_ were used. Even these
_dissyllabic_ forms scarcely occur before Ovid. -- ET: emphatic at the
beginning of a sentence: 'aye, and'. -- MELIUS: _sc. dixit_. -- ILLUD: 'the
following' A. 102, b, G. 292, 4; H. 450, 3. -- IDEM: _Ä«dem_, not _Ä­dem_. --
EDEPOL: literally, 'ah, god Pollux', _e_ being an interjection, _de_ a
shortened form of the vocative of _deus, pol_ abbreviated from _Pollux_.
The asseveration is mostly confined to comedy. The lines come from a play
by Statius called Plocium (πλοκιον 'necklace'), copied from one by Menander
with the same title; see Ribbeck's 'Fragmenta' The verses are iambic
trimeters A. 365; G. 754, H. 622. -- NIL QUICQUAM: see n. on 21 _quemquam
senem_, cf. the common expression _nemo homo_, 84 _nemo vir_, etc. where
two substantival words are placed side by side. -- VITI: see n. on 1, l 3
_praemi Viti_ here = _mali_; cf. Ter. Andr. 73 _ei vereor ne quid Andria