Nonius Marcellus, Compendium of Doctrine, Vol. II (1888) - Page 9

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...that I had for you, could something be added? So much was added that I now finally seem to myself to be in love, whereas before I had been merely fond.

Perire to perish and interire to go to ruin/die have a great deal of difference, because perire is a lighter thing and has a hope of renewal and is not the end of all things. Plautus in the Captivi:

He who perishes through virtue, does not die.

Alere to nourish and educare to rear/educate differ in this: alere is to sustain with temporal sustenance, but educare is to lead out to perpetual sufficiency. Plautus in the Menaechmi:

For that man does not nourish men, but rears them.

Accius in the Andromeda:

"I nourished, I reared." — "See that you make that pleasing to the old man."

Between tollere to lift up and auferre to carry away there is a difference. Tollere is to lift, to raise up; auferre is to carry away what has been lifted. Vergil book VIII:

Lift up everything, he says, and carry away the labors you have begun.

Turpilius in the Philopatro:

He looks around at the same time: when he sees
no one else beside him, he lifts it, carries it away; I follow secretly.

Varro in the Sexagesi: Now who, born of ten years, not only carries away his father but lifts him, unless by poison?

Horrendum horrible and horridum rough/bristling have a great deal of difference. For horrendum is foul and avoidable. Vergil Aeneid book III:

A horrible council.

6 III, 5, 32 || 10 I, 1, 22 || 12 Accius Andromeda || 15 Aen. VIII, 439 || 17 Turpilius Philopatro || 20 Varro Sexagesi || 23 III, 679.

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