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Scaliger says it was an invention of the Phrygians to employ these hired mourners. Plaut., Truc., II., vi., 14. Gell., xviii., 6. The technical name of their lamentation was Nænia. Cf. Fest. in voc. It generally consisted of the praises of the deceased. Æsch., Choëph., 151, παιᾶνα τοῦ θανόντος ἐξαυδωμένας. «Cf. Hor., A. P., 431,
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Ut qui conducti plorant in funere, dicunt et faciunt prope plura dolentibus ex animo.
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O bone custos salve, columen verò familiæ! _Columella_ is properly
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then put, like columen, for the main-stay or support of any thing. So Horace calls Mæcenas, ii., Od. xvii., 4,
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Mearum grande decus columenque rerum. Cic., Sext., viii.,
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Columen reipublicæ. So Timon is called, Lucian, Tim., 50, τὸ ἔρεισμα τῶν Ἀθηναίων. Sil., xv., 385,
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Ausonii columen regni. So Clytæmnestra calls Agamemnon, ὑψηλῆς στέγης στύλον ποδήρη. Ag., 898. «Doederlein thinks there is a connection between the words culmus, calamus, culmen, columen, columna, columella, with cello, whence celsus.
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Significarique id quod emineat, sursum tendat, altum sit,