Nonius Marcellus, Compendium of Doctrine, Vol. II (1888) - Page 10

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Horridum is usually sticking out, prominent, and erect. Vergil Aeneid book IV:

And his beard is stiff and bristling with ice.

Plautus in the Pseudolus:

The squeezings of bristling nipples.

Accius in the Medea:

As the sad [storm] of whirlwinds
endured the winters, when the sea shuddered with waves.

Lucilius in the Satires book XVI:

Here, those whom riches produce, as they anoint the head
bristling!

M. Tullius [Cicero] in De Re Publica book I: But like him who is sailing, when the sea suddenly begins to shudder. — The same in De Re Publica book IV: For it is said that the state first shuddered at their severity. — Varro in a letter to Caesar:

Meanwhile, near the setting sun, the sea shudders.

Sisenna in Histories book IV: The sea suddenly began to shudder, and to roll the hidden waves upon itself.

Between meretrice courtesan and prostibulo prostitute/brothel there is this difference. A meretrix is of a more honest place and profit; for meretrices are named from "remaining"

26 IV, 251 || 28 I, 1, 66 || 30 Accius Medea || 33 Lucilius l. XVI || 3 I, 40, 63 || 4 M. Tullius de re publ. IV || 5 Varro epistula ad Caesarem || 8 Sisenna Hist. IV.

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