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Pliny, Letters, ii, 20. Digest, xiv, 1 and 3 and 8 on the actio exercitoria and institoria. Cf. Codex, iv, 25, 4: et si a muliere magister navis praepositus fuerit, etc. CIL, xiv, 326. Martial, xi, 71. Apuleius, Metam., v, 10. Soranus, i, 1, ch. 1 and 2. E.g. Suetonius, Nero, 27. Carmina Priapea, 18 and 27. Ulpian, xiii, 1.
Numa, however, adopted 355 days for his year, from his partiality to odd numbers. The intercalations were generally made in the month of February, after the 23d of the month. The management was left to the pontiffs ad metam eandem solis unde orsi essent dies congruerent; "that the days might correspond to the same starting-point of the sun in the heavens whence they had set out."
Jahn, p. 177, quoting Temme, "Volkssagen"; Ovid, "Metam." l. iii. fab. 3; Tacitus, "Germ." c. 40. Roger of Wendover, "Flowers of History," sub anno 1057. I quote from Dr. Giles' translation. See his Presidential Address to the Warwickshire Naturalists' and Archæologists' Field Club, 1886. MS. marked D. This entry is an interpolation in a list of mayors and sheriffs in a different handwriting.
Folkard's "Plant-lore, Legends, and Lyrics," p. 463. Conway's "Mystic Trees and Flowers," Blackwood's Magazine, 1870, p. 594. Thorpe's "Northern Mythology," i. 212. See Black's "Folk-Medicine." "Mystic Trees and Flowers," p. 594. "Primitive Culture," ii. 215. Metam., viii. 742-839; also Grimm's Teut. Myth., 1883, ii. 953-4 Grimm's Teut. Myth., ii. 653.
Numa, however, adopted 355 days for his year, from his partiality to odd numbers. The intercalations were generally made in the month of February, after the 23rd of the month. Their management was left to the pontiffs ad metam eandem solis unde orsi essent dies congruerent; "that the days might correspond to the same starting-point of the sun in the heavens whence they had set out." Ov.
Every man deceives himself while he thinks he is deceiving others; and forgets that the time is at hand when every illusion shall cease, when fictitious excellence shall be torn away, and ALL must be shown to ALL in their real state. I am, Sir, your humble servant, No. 85. Qui studet optatam cursu contingere metam, Multa tulit fecitque puer. Hon. De Ar. Poet. 412.
This Lucian acknowledges unawares, when, in deriding the popular religion, he says that a youth who reads of the gods in Homer or Hesiod, and finds their various immoralities so highly renowned, would feel no little surprise when he entered the world, to discover that these very actions of the gods were condemned and punished by mankind. Ovid. Metam., lib. ix. See Diod. Siculus, lib. 8.
And as you seem so mighty fond of Latin, remember what Horace says Qui cupit opatam cursu contingere metam, Multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit. Oh-h-h-h!"
But, having first drunk five and twenty or thirty good draughts, retire yourself and sleep your fill, for in the morning I will argue against and answer my master the Englishman, and if I drive him not ad metam non loqui, then call me knave. Yea but, said he, my friend Panurge, he is marvellously learned; how wilt thou be able to answer him?
Med'cine is mine: what herbs and simples grow In fields and forests, all their powers I know, And am the great physician called below." Apollo to Daphne, in OVID'S Metam. PRYDEN'S Trans.
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