Nonius Marcellus, Compendium of Doctrine, Vol. II

original: "deterior qui visus, eum, ne prodigus obsit, / dede neci."
the one who has appeared inferior, you must deliver to death, so that the spendthrift may not do harm.

The same, book VIII:

original: "deterior donec paulatim ac decolor aetas."
until a later deterior inferior/worse and discolored age gradually [arrives].

For these things are compared to better ones.

Between CIRCVS circus/circle and GLOBVS globe/sphere there is this difference: a circus is a flat, round surface, like a circuit; a globus is a solid object that is round on all sides, such as a sphere or a ball of yarn. M. Tullius Cicero in On the Nature of the Gods, book II: "And since there are two most excellent forms, from solids the globe (for it is pleasant to interpret the sphere in this way), but from planes the circle or the orb." — Vergil, book V:

original: "mediaque in valle theatri / circus erat."
and in the middle of the theater's valley was a circus.

And:

original: "lucentemque globum lunae Titaniaque astra."
and the shining globe of the moon and the Titanian stars.

The ancients considered that MANVBIAE spoils/proceeds of war differed from PRAEDA plunder/prey in this way: that praeda is the actual bodies of the things that are captured, while manubiae are the monies collected from the sold plunder. And so it is among most writers. For they wished for M. Tullius to have understood it in this way concerning the agrarian law: the censors [sold] the plunder, the spoils, the section, and finally the camp of Gnaeus Pompeius while the commander was sitting.

PERVICACIA stubbornness and PERTINACIA obstinacy differ in this: pervicacia is sometimes the perseverance in good things, pertinacia is always in bad ones. Accius in Myrmidons:

original: "nam pérvicacem díci me esse et víncier / perfácile patior, pértinacem níl moror. / tu pértinaciam ésse, Antiloche, hanc praédicas,"
for I endure very easily being called stubborn pervicax and being bound, I care nothing for being obstinate pertinax. You, Antilochus, declare this to be obstinacy,