Note 10 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS

cor Enni: Comp. re-cor-dor and cor-datus, and our ‘get by heart.’ So credidit meum cor, Enn., Ann., 374 (Vahl.). See Mart., 3, 26, 4; 11, 84, 17. The expression is little more than cordatus Ennius, as in the familiar passage, tergemini vis Geryonaï, Lucr., 5, 28. So corpore Turni, Verg., Aen., 7, 650; Greek, βία, ἴς, δέμας, στόμα (Ἀνύτης στόμα, Anthol. P., 9, 26, 3). On the same principle are based such combinations as mens provida Reguli, Hor., Od., 3, 5, 13, and venit et Crispi iucunda senectus. Juv., 4, 81, and Montani quoque venter adest, l.c. 107. ‘Ennius, in his sober moments’ (Gifford).—destertuit: On the Tense, see G., 563; A., 62, 2, a. ‘Snored off his being,’ i.e., the dream that he was Homer. Ennius’s dreams are touched up in Prol., 2, where it has been mentioned that Ennius dreamed that he had seen Homer. For the further visions, see the citations in Vahlen’s ed. of Ennius, Ann., v. 15.