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For another explanation of gaudebat, cf. n. Quod ominabatur. Quod is omitted in the common editions. Spiramenta. Breathing-spells, i.e. intervals to recover and take breath in. The word is found only in poetry and post-Augustan prose, and, in the expressive sense in which it is here used, only in Ammian. Marc. 29, 1. See Or. and Freund. Velut uno ictu. XLV. Non vidit.

Their horns were small. Numero. Emphatic: number, rather than quality. Or, with Ritter, gaudent may be taken in the sense of enjoy, possess: they have a good number of them. In the same sense he interprets gaudent in A. 44: opibus nimiis non gaudebat. Irati, sc. quia opes sunt irritamenta malorum. Ov. Met. 1, 140. Negaverint. Subj. H. 525; Z. 552 Affirmaverim. cf. note, 2: crediderim.

Et ipse quidem, quanquam medio in spatio integrae aetatis ereptus, quantum ad gloriam, longissimum aevum peregit. Quippe et vera bona, quae in virtutibus sita sunt, impleverat, et consulari ac triumphalibus ornamentis praedito, quid aliud adstruere fortuna poterat? Opibus nimiis non gaudebat; speciosae contigerant.

"Argute resonas Cithare pretendere chordas Novit, et Aonia concrepuisse Lyra. Gaudebat terre teneras defigere plantas; Et mira pulchras construere arte domos Composita varias lingua formare loquelas Doctus, et edocta scribere multa manu." The arms over it thus: Quart. I. 3 HUNTER'S HORNS stringed. II. 3 PINIONS with their points upwards.