Nonius Marcellus: On the Propriety of Language

Tolutim at a trot is said as if volutim rolling, or volubly. Plautus in the Asinaria:

By Hercules, I will take away from the barley, unless you run at a trot.

Novius in Gallicinaria:

O pestiferous, Pontic, wild, cruel, trot-talking:

that is, voluble speech. The same in Macco exul:

I have ordered the man to go to the Tuscans at a trot.

Lucilius in the eighth book of the Satires:

If he evades the whole journey, and the steep stadium at a trot.

The same:

He seems here always about to begin at a trot.

Varro in Trihodite, tripylio, περὶ ἀρετῆς κτλ On virtue, etc.:

But as a horse that is born for carrying, when it is handed over to a master so that the horse-trainer may teach it to trot.

Pomponius in Decuma fullonis:

And when he has leaped onto the snail-shaped horse, there the torturer at a trot.

Agatho:

After he said these things, he yields exalted? at a trot.

Capulum a handle/a coffin is called whatever takes a little something into itself: for the ancients wished the sarcophagus, that is the tomb, to be called capulum because it takes bodies. Plautus in the Asinaria, speaking about an old man:

I am lost, wretched; how he kisses, the executioner, the ornament of the coffin.

The same in the Miles:

What do you say? Do I seem to you so completely like a man of Acheron?
So coffin-ready?

that is, close to the coffin. Novius in Pappo praeterito:

— while you have those supporters, father,
You will hang your buttocks in the coffin sooner than in the curule chair.

Lucilius in the second book of the Satires:

Whom when they had seen, Hortensius,