BOOK XVII. CAP. I. II.

...thanks were being given, whatever I had done, [to] others not so; [using vel] for et and. Virgil in the fourth Aeneid: Aut ante ora deum pinguis spatiatur ad aras Or he walks before the faces of the gods to the fat altars; aut or for et and. The particle -que is also found not only as a copulative, but also as a disjunctive, as Virgil in the second Aeneid: Aut pelago Danaum insidias suspectaque dona praecipitare jubent, subjectisque urere flammis They order to cast the traps and suspected gifts of the Greeks into the sea, or to burn them with placed fires: -que and for vel or. And also others are accepted for other parts. Nor can we know this otherwise than from the adjuncts, as per very/thoroughly, if it is applied, is accepted as "very," that is, in the place of an adverb, even if it is joined to a noun under the same intention of signification, as Terence in the Eunuch: Perpulchra, credo, dona, aut nostris similia Very beautiful gifts, I believe, or similar to ours. Likewise atque and, et and, ac and, also, if they are subordinated to an adverb like aliter otherwise or secus differently or similar ones, they obtain the force of an adverb, as Virgil in the third Aeneid: Haud secus ac jussi faciunt Not otherwise than as they were ordered they do, for quam as they were ordered. And, Horrendum clamat He cries horribly, for horrende horribly, a noun for an adverb; sublime volat he flies on high for sublimiter sublimely. II It is accustomed to be asked the reason for the order of the elements, why 'a' before 'b', and the others: 12 so also concerning the ordination of cases, and genders, and tenses, and the parts of speech themselves it is accustomed to be asked. It remains, therefore, to treat of...