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Cultione agri or something of the kind might have been expected. The collocation of appetentem with occupatum in 56 is no less awkward. FACIT: n. on 3 facimus. RES RUSTICAE LAETAE SUNT: 'the farmer's life is gladdened'. APIUM: this form is oftener found in the best MSS., of prose writers at least, than the other form apum, which probably was not used by Cic. OMNIUM: = omnis generis.
'The Apulian peasants, according to Baglivi's account, also hunt the Tarantula by imitating the humming of an insect with an oat-stalk at the entrance to her burrow. I quote the passage: "Ruricolae nostri quando eas captare volunt, ad illorum latibula accedunt, tenuisque avenacae fistulae sonum, apum murmuri non absimilem, modulantur.
Holus-bolus, 'sicut examen apum, ye decamp at the word of a single foe! Fie, fie upon you, ye dregs, ye sweepings of humanity!" The bellicose commander spat in his disgust at the fugitives again and again, and overwhelmed them with all sorts of choice epithets. Finally he snatched up an axe, and declared that if nobody else stirred he would go and batter down the door of the castle single-handed.
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