DE DIFFERENTIA SIMILIVM SIGNIFICATIONVM. V.

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The Harpy Celaeno alone sings the new i.e., strange and unspeakable prodigy original: "sola novum dictuque nefas harpyia Celaeno / prodigium canit.".

And Book VI:

Driven by heavenly prodigies, they will make atonement for their bones original: "prodigiis acti caelestibus ossa piabunt.".

Portenta are omens ostenta that signify something is impending. Lucilius, Book XXVI:

Unless you write of portents and winged, feathered snakes original: "nisi portenta anguisque volucres ac pinnatos scribitis.".

CELARE to hide and CAELARE to engrave/chase have this diversity: celare is to cover or conceal. Terentius in Andria:

Revealing a love well feigned and concealed original: "bene dissimulatum amorem et celatum indicans.".

Vergilius, Book VI:

Secret paths conceal them original: "secreti celant calles.".

Caelare is to engrave. Vergilius, Aeneid Book I:

And the brave deeds of the fathers engraved in gold original: "caelataque in auro / fortia facta patrum.".

Varro in Agatho:

Does the cup, engraved caelo with the chisel/graving tool, hidden in the right hand, display the art of Mentor original: "numnam celatus in manu dextra scyphus, / caelo dolitus, artem ostentat Mentoris?"?

IGNOSCERE to pardon and CONCEDERE to grant/concede differ, as M. Tullius reveals to the younger Caesar in Book I: "When you grant me and Philippus a leave of absence, I rejoice twice over; for you pardon the past and grant the future."

CONTEMNERE to scorn and DESPICERE to look down upon/despise differ in that despicere is more serious than contemnere. M. Tullius in Against Verres, second action: "How he scorned, despised, and never considered free any of the most humble men." The same to Caesar, Book III: "The friends...