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Celebrare is often used in the sense of
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so here, conversely, frequentare is used in the sense of
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Vid. Hyg., Fab., 126,
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Cum telam detexuero nubam. Plaut., Ps. I., iv., 7,
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Neque ad detexundam telam certos terminos habes.
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Penetrales Dii. Cic., Nat. D., ii., 27. Senec., Œdip., 265. So
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--_Retractans_, in the sense of going over again with a view to corrections and additions. So Plin., v. Ep., 8,
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Egi graves causas; has destino retractare. Senec., Ep., 46,
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De libro tuo plura scribam cum illum retractavero.
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Lugete O Veneres, Cupidinesque.
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Archilochum proprio rabies armavit Iambo. i., Ep. xix., 23,
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Parios ego primus Iambos Ostendi Latio numeros animosque secutus Archilochi non res et agentia verba Lycamben. The allusion in the next line is to Hipponax, who flourished cir. B.C. 540; Ol. lx. He was a native of Ephesus; but being expelled from his native country by the tyrant Athenagoras, he settled at Clazomenæ, now the Isle of St. John. The common story is, that he was so hideously ugly, that the sculptors Bupalus and Athenis caricatured him. And to avenge this insult, Hipponax altered the Iambic of Archilochus into a more bitter form by making the last foot a spondee, which gave the verse a kind of halting rhythm, and was hence called Scazontic, from σκάζω· or Choliambic, from χῶλος,
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Diomed., iii., 503. «A specimen may be seen in Martial's bitter epigram against Cato. i., Ep. I,
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Cur in Theatrum Cato severe venisti? » In this metre he so bitterly satirized them that they hanged themselves, as Lycambes had done, in consequence of the ridicule of Archilochus. Hence Horace, vi., Epod. 13,
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Qualis Lycambæ spretus infido gener Aut acer hostis Bupalo. Pliny (H. N., xxxvi., 5) treats the whole story as mythical. Cf. Mart., i., Ep. 97, for some good specimens, and Catull., xxxix. Another form of Choliambic verse is the substitution of an Antibacchius for the final Iamb.: e. g.,
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Remitte pallium mihi quod involasti.