human
either because they carried clubs, or because they were the hewers of wood and drawers of water for the soldiers. From their being always in the camp they acquired some military knowledge, and hence we find them occasionally used in great emergencies. They are sometimes confounded with Lixæ; but the latter were _not_ slaves. The name is then applied to any coarse and common drudge. Cf. Hor., i., Ep. xiv., 41,
gpt
Invidet usum Lignorum tibi calo. Cf. i., Sat. ii., 44; vi., 103. Tac., Hist., i., 49.--_Alto_ refers to the old Greek proverb, ἄνοος ὁ μακρὸς,
human
Every tall man is a fool;
gpt
Navem agere ignarus navis timet; abrotonum ægro non audet nisi qui didicit dare; quod medicorum est promittunt medici.