Word: fasti
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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CANDIDATES for second-year honors in classics will substitute Ovid's Fasti for Lucan's Pharsalia. The list as corrected stands : Cicero, De Officiis ; Caesar, Civil War ; Virgil, Georgics and AEneid, - Books VII. - XII., inclusive; Ovid, Fasti...
...cases. If Mr. Reiley were to call on Mr. Allen, we think the result might be thus described: Alanus, stans pede altero, altero Reileium foras extrusit. There is also the brilliant remark that "compulit (instead of coegit) never occurs with an object infinitive in good Latin." E. g. Ovid (Fasti, III. 860): Compulerunt regem jussa nefanda pati...