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25 that is, nearest to the bier capulo handle/bier. Pomponius in Pappo Praeterito original: "Pappus Passed Over":
while you are inviting these voters, father,
you will hang [them] by their buttocks on the bier before the curule chair.
Lucilius, Satires, book II:
when they had seen him there, Hortensius and Postumius,
and the others also, that he was not in the bier and no other lay there.
Varro in Cosmotoryne original: "World-Spinner", On the Corruption of the World:
the bier capulum bier having been placed near the bed,
he hands the child over to the layer-out the official who prepared a corpse for burial.
5 TEMVLENTA drunk/tipsy (feminine) is said of a woman who is inebriated, [derived] from temetum strong wine/intoxicating drink, which is wine, because it tempts a false etymology connecting temetum with attemptare. Plautus in Aulularia:
because I understand that no temetum wine has been brought.
The same in Truculentus:
even if he is without temetum wine, nevertheless he is wicked by nature.
10 M. Tullius Cicero in On the Republic, book IV: It has such great concern for the discipline of modesty: all women are without temetum wine. — Varro in Est modus matulae There is a limit to the drinking cup, On Drunkenness:
who in his whole
life, a glutton drinking from a cup, smells the temetum wine?