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Afranius in Suspecta The Suspected Woman:
just as to this young master, to whom he handed over the suspicion,
who is exhausted exercitus exercised/harassed in his mind through me.
Vergilius, book III:
boy, exhausted exercite exercised/harassed by Trojan fates.
TENVS a snare is a noose: named from tendicula a small snare/stretcher. Plautus in Bacchides:
now the thrush seeks the earthworm from the snare.
He will hang beautifully today: thus I have stretched the snare!
INLICERE to entice/ensnare is properly to entrap. Naevius in Lycurgus:
into other groves enticed inlicite ensnared immediately,
where the two-footed birds leave their eyes in the flax the net.
PELICIS concubine: learned men think the meaning is derived from a Greek word, like pallex, that is, pallakis concubine. But if this is not [true]
a vain composition of the name may seem to be.
CALVITVR to frustrate/trick is said for "he frustrates": derived from mimic clowns calvi = bald men, often stock characters in pantomime who played the fool, because they are a frustration to everyone. Plautus in Casina:
for when I am alone at home, sleep tricks calvitur frustrates my hands.