Note 708 — Chapter IV · SENECAN SATIRE AND POETRY: DRAMA OF THE AGE
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E.g. (proverbs) 1: aut regem aut fatuum nasci oportere; 7: manus manum lauat; (colloquialisms) 1: dicam quod mihi in buccam uenerit; 3: in semen relinqui; (slang) 4: animam ebulliit; 9: mapalia (Punic = “shanties”); (parataxis) 2: si dixero, mensis erat October; 10: dic mihi ... quare damnasti. The diminutives nummulariolus, ciuitatulas, auriculam, and a few more, occur.