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Nostra bibat vernum contracta cuticula solem. Alluding to the _apricatio_, or
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of which old men are so fond. Line 33. Sat. v., 179. Cic., de Senect., xvi. Mart., x., Ep. xii., 7,
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I precor et totos avida cute combibe soles, Quam formosus eris, dum peregrinus eris. Plin., Ep. iii., 1.
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Ubi hora balinei nuntiata est, in sole, si caret vento, ambulat nudus. iv., Ep. 5,
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Post cibum sæpe æstate si quod otii, jacebat in sole. Cic., Att., vii., 11. Mart., i., Ep. lxxviii., 4. Juv., ii., 105,
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Et curare cutem summi constantia civis. Hor., i., Ep. iv., 29,
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In cute curandâ plus æquo operata juventus. iv., 15,
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Me pinguem et nitidum bene curatâ cute vises. Cf. Sat. ii., 37,
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Pelliculam curare jube.
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Basil, _ocimum Basilicum_, either from ὠκὺς, from its
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or from ὄζειν, from its
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Peras imposuit Jupiter nobis duas: propriis repletam vitiis post tergum dedit: Alienis ante pectus suspendit gravem. Hâc re videre nostra mala non possumus: alii simul delinquunt, censores sumus. So Petr., Frag. Traj., 57,
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In alio peduclum vides: in te ricinum non vides. Cat., xxii., 20,
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Suus quoique attributus est error: Sed non videmus manticæ quod in tergo est.
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Tot milvos intra tua pascua lassos.
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Compita are places where three or more roads meet, from the old verb bito or beto. At these places altars, or little chapels, were erected with as many sides as there were ways meeting. (Jani bifrontes.) Cf. v., 35,
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Ramosa in compita. Hence they are called
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i. e., _pervia_,
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At these chapels it was the custom for the rustics to suspend the worn-out implements of husbandry. Though some think this was more especially done at the Compitalia. This festival was one of those which the Romans called Feriæ Conceptivæ, being fixed annually by the Prætor. They generally followed close upon the Saturnalia, and were held sometimes three days before the kalends of January, sometimes on the kalends themselves. Vid. Cic., Pis., iv. Auson., Ecl. de Fev.,
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Et nunquam certis redeuntia festa diebus, Compita per vicos quum sua quisque colit. According to Servius, they are described, though not by name, by Virgil, Æn., viii., 717. Like the Quinquatrus, they lasted only one day, and on that occasion additional wooden chapels were erected, the sacrificial cakes were provided by different houses, and slaves, not freedmen, presided at the sacrifices. Vid. Plin., XXXVI., xxvii., 70. The gods whom they worshiped are said to have been the Lares Compitales, of whom various legends are current. But this is doubtful. Augustus appointed certain rites in their honor, twice in the year. Suet., Vit., c. xxxi.,
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Compitales Lares ornari bis anno instituit vernis floribus et æstivis.