Note 1256 — Chapter III · FRONTINUS AND TECHNICAL WRITERS
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Wölfflin, Herm., IX., instances ad with geographical names used differently from F.’s usage; traditur used impersonally; total absence in Bk. IV. of certain phrases recurrent in F. like ob hoc, ob id, et ideo, ideoque, eoque; and unnecessary use of suus with frater, filius, etc. There seems very little in the last point. In IV. i. 32 suum is properly added to fratrem for emphasis; but filium in 40 and fratrem in 41 have no suum.