Note 1266 — Chapter III · FRONTINUS AND TECHNICAL WRITERS

Perhaps one of his closest copies is Str., I. v. 16, based on Liv., XXXV. xi. Here, Livy’s “Caudinae cladis memoria ... obuersabatur” becomes “obuersaretur Caudinae cladis exemplum”; “per ludibrium spectaculo esse” is repeated word for word; and “subditis calcaribus inter medias stationes hostium erupere” becomes “additis calcaribus per intermissas hostium stationes eruperunt.”