Cf. also the play on Chrysalus and Crucisalus; and the following may serve as a specimen of his perpetual puns:-- Non enim es in senticeto, eo non sentis.--Captivi, 857.] [Footnote 43: Alliterations and assonances:--Vi veneris vinctus. Cottabi crebri crepent. Laetus, lubens, laudes ago. Collus collari caret. Atque mores hominum moros et morosos efficit, etc., etc. Asyndeta:-- Laudem, lucrum, ludum, iocum, festivitatem, ferias. Vorsa, sparsa, tersa, strata, lauta, structaque omnia ut sint, etc., etc. These are not occasional, but constantly recurring characteristics of his style. The thought and matter they express must, in a great measure, be due to his own invention.] [Footnote 44: Roman formulae:--Quae res bene vortat. Conceptis verbis. Quod bonum, felix, faustum, fortunatumque sit. Ut gesserit rempublicam ductu, imperio, auspicio suo, etc., etc.] [Footnote 45: Proverbs:--Sarta tecta. Sine sacris haereditas. Inter saxum et sacra. Vae victis. Ad incitas redactust, etc., etc.] [Footnote 46: Expressions of courtesy:--Tam gratiast. Benigne. Num quid vis? etc.] [Footnote 47: E.g. Pistoria, Placentia, Praeneste, Sutrium, Sarsina, etc.] [Footnote 48: E.g. Vicus Tuscus, Velabrum, Macellum, Porta Trigemina, Porta Metia; and compare the long passage in the Curculio (462), which directly refers to Rome.] [Footnote 49: Quid ego cesso Pseudolum Facere ut det nomen ad Molas coloniam.--Pseud. 1082.] [Footnote 50: Mancupio dare, stipulatio, antestatio, sponsio, ubi res prolatae sunt.] [Footnote 51: Bacchid. 120.] [Footnote 52: Captivi, 888.] [Footnote 53: Trinummus, 545-6.] [Footnote 54: Non omnes possunt olere unguenta exotica.--Mostell. 42.] [Footnote 55: Cf. Bacch. 1072;-- Set, spectatores, vos nunc ne miremini Quod non triumpho: pervolgatumst, nil moror. Verum tamen accipientur mulso milites.] [Footnote 56: Mil. Glor. 164, 6. Cf. Hor. Od. iii. 24. 58: Seu malis vetita legibus alea.] [Footnote 57: Casina, iii. 3. 22.] [Footnote 58: Livy, xxiv. 2.] [Footnote 59: 'Do you see that the enemy is close upon you, and that your back will soon be invested? Quick! seize some help and succour: it must be done speedily, not quietly. Get before them somehow; lead round your forces by some pass or other. Invest the enemy; bring relief to our own troops; cut off the enemy's supplies; make a road for yourself, by which provisions or supplies may reach yourself or your legions safely: give your whole heart to the business--it is a sudden emergency.'--Mil. Glor. 219-225.