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And afterwards he has, "Stilphonem, inquam, noveras?" Siet is the word at full length; sit is the contracted form. One may use either; and so we find in the same passage, "Quam cara sint, quae post carendo intelligunt, Quamque attinendi magni dominatus sient." Nor should I find fault with "Scripsere alii rem."
Sei ques esent, quei arvorsum ead fecisent, quam suprad | scriptum adversum ea 26. est, eeis rem caputalem faciendam censuere atque utei | hoce in 27. tabolam abenam inceideretis, ita senatus aiquom censuit; | uteique eam aequum 28. figier ioubeatis ubei facilumed gnoscier potisit; atque | utei ea Ba- 29. canalia, sei qua sunt, exstrad quam sei quid ibei sacri est | ita utei suprad scriptum est, in diebus x. quibus vobis tabelai datai 30. erunt, | faciatis utci dismota sient in agro Teurano."
Terence, therefore, has made use of both, as when he says, eho tu cognatum tuum non noras? and afterwards, Stilphonem, inquam, noveras? Thus also, fiet is a perfect verb, and fit a contracted one; and accordingly we find in the same Comedian, Quam cara SINTQUE post carendo intelligunt, and Quamque attinendi magni dominatus SIENT.
Some fix it at 178 B.C.; others as late as 129 B.C. The earlier date is the more probable. We then have to ask when Hostius himself lived. Teuffel inclines to place him before Accius; but most commentators assign him a later date. A few lines are preserved in Macrobius, which seem to point to an early period, e.g. "non si mihi linguae Centum atque ora sient totidem vocesque liquatae," and again,
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