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NOTES. 115
S i±±i..'^'eleme!i/a.'' tlie letters of the alLiliab£.t '. i^-^
1446. Prius^i.t. before tbe invention of wri tinp.
1447. ra/?V, ' reasoning '. Comp. 11. 324 — 329.
1448 — 1457. Tkus by degrees practice and experience suggested to men
all useful inventions and afterwards all the fine arts and luxuries
of life. There has been a gradual but steady progress until per-
fection in them all has been reached.
1449. 'vias, 'roads'; an important part and instrument of civilisa-
tion which the Romans thoroughly understood.
1450. praemia, sc. vitae; see n. to 1. 1151. ' ^funditu^ ' v^^^^ KS-
excep ti oD '. usuallv has omnes after it in Lucr. ; but see 11. 497, 1435- —
*~ ix^si.^^ ^aedala sisna /^g/tVfi '' the shapjag of well-wrought statues' :
^tolir e is used as a noup iii the a cc. case. daedala is used in its passive
significatio;! ; see n. to 1. 234.
1452. ^^««^' piggtice ' ; comp. Virg. Georg. i 133 ut varias usus
vieditando extunderet artes.
1453. progredietites, sc. homines, a second acc. after docuit,
1454J ununiquicouid= unumauidaue : see n. to 1. 13
i4.';^. ' ^itiniediuin ,'- in sight of all men '; so 1. 1160.
-^y . luminis oras: see n. to 1. 85.
t^ie^^' 1456. aHd=aliud; see n. to 1. 1305. ex alic and ordine are treated
^ as co-ordinate adverbs, ' after another and in due order '. . j^ ,
x^-JiXM-- 1457. artibus is dat. c ommod i, b ut may be translate d. ' In tbe arts '.
venere, sc. a?-tes.