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Q. Laronius was a quinquennalis at Vibo Valentia by order of the senate, which again shows the irregularity of the choice. M. Traesius Faustus was quinquennalis of Potentia, but died an inhabitant of Atinae in Lucania. M. Alleius Luccius Libella, who was aedile and duovir in Pompeii, was not elected quinquennalis, but made praefectus quinquennalis, which implies appointment.

Laudis amore tumes? sunt certa piacula, quoe te Ter pure lecto poterunt recreare libella. HON. Lib. i. Ep. i. 36. Or art thou vain? books yield a certain spell To stop thy tumour; you shall cease to swell When you have read them thrice, and studied well.

There was something peculiarly melancholy in the character of this water; all the herbs around it were grey, as if encrusted with marble; a few buffaloes were slaking their thirst in it, which ran wildly away on our approach, and appeared to retire into a rocky excavation or quarry at the end of the lake; there were a number of birds, which, on examination, I found were sea swallows, flitting on the surface and busily employed with the libella or dragon- fly in destroying the myriads of gnats which rose from the bottom and were beginning to be very troublesome by their bites to us.

Beati sunt mortui: here rest, we know, the priestess Mammia, the decemvir Aricius, Libella the aedile, and a host of other citizens with whose names the student or the lover of Pompeii is familiar.