^{page 191 note 1} P. 195 sqq., Bidez-Cumont = ep. 77.

^{page 192 note 1} See Halliday, W. R. in Class. Rev. XXXV (1921), p. 154CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

^{page 192 note 2} Livy II. 8, 8.

^{page 192 note 3} Plut, . Aim. Paul. 35, 36Google Scholar; Liv. XLV. 40.

^{page 193 note 1} See the Thesaurus, s.u. cadauer.

^{page 193 note 2} If it was not regularly so Nero's excuse is pointless.

^{page 193 note 3} Some very interesting examples will be found in Frazer, G.B.3 III. 187 sqq. The idea of the life-stream, which, rather than the particular lives of individuals, I take to be the original conception, I owe to some illuminating suggestions of Mr. T. C. Hodson. See C.Q. XVIII., p. 57 sqq.

^{page 193 note 4} And therefore acerbus, ‘unripe.’ We have a valuable, if late, parallel to this use of acerbus. Justinian, (Nou. XXXIX. 2, p. 257Google Scholar, Schoell-Kroll) calls the remarriage of a widow within the year of mourning, i.e. while she is still ghost-ridder, acerbas nuptias, άώρονςγάμονς. It does not mean ‘painful.’ A married son with sons of his own was perhaps treated as a quiisi-paterfamilias.

^{page 194 note 1} It seems to come fromuē and sepelio, ‘ϋbel bestattend,’ see Walde, Etym. Wöt. s.u.

^{page 194 note 2} It is to be hoped that we have seen the last of the unfortunate suggestion that a pauper burial was called funus taciturn. The authorities for this phrase are Ovid, , Trist. I. 3Google Scholar, 22, formmque non taciti funeris intus erat—i.e. one might have thought Ovid was dead and an unusually noisy conclamatio in progress; Seneca, , de trtnj. anim. I. 1, 13Google Scholar, morti natus es, minus molestitnm habet funus taciturn—in other words, since o>e must die, the less fuss about it the better. There is no hint of a technical meaning in either passage.