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AIT: sc. esse; the omission with aio is rare, though common with dico, appello etc.; see n. on 22. COMICOS: not 'comic' in our sense, but = in comoediis, 'represented in comedy'. So Rosc. CREDULOS: in almost every Latin comedy there is some old man who is cheated by a cunning slave. Off. 3, 36 error hominum non proborum. ISTA: implying contempt.
The stoutest and most resolute natures render even their seclusion glorious and exemplary: "Tuta et parvula laudo, Quum res deficiunt, satis inter vilia fortis Verum, ubi quid melius contingit et unctius, idem Hos sapere et solos aio bene vivere, quorum Conspicitur nitidis fundata pecunia villis." A great deal less would serve my turn well enough.
Croesus, having received from the Pythoness, this answer, that by passing the river Halys, he would destroy a great empire, he understood it to be the empire of his enemy, whereas he destroyed his own. The oracle consulted by Pyrrhus, gave him an answer, which might be equally understood of the victory of Pyrrhus, and the victory of the Romans his enemies. Aio te Aeacida, Romanos vincere posse.
And so I will return again to our journey, which for this third day we finished, and cast anchor again near the continent on the left hand between two mountains, the one called Aroami and the other Aio.
As for the branches of rivers which I overpass in this discourse, those shall be better expressed in the description, with the mountains of Aio, Ara, and the rest, which are situate in the provinces of Parino and Carricurrina.
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