Note 273 — FIRST SECTION. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Martial, Bk. I. Epigr. 66. The old Grammars had the following lines:
Haec ficus, fici vel ficus, fructus et arbor, Hic ficus, fici, malus est in podice morbus.
(Feminine:—ficus, gen. -i and -us, fig and fig-tree; masculine:—ficus, gen. -i, is an evil disease of the fundament.)