[p. 47] Also Publius Nigidius in his second book On Animals: 1 “As when a serpent bites (memordit) one, a hen is split and placed upon the wound.” Likewise Plautus in the Aulularia: 2
How he the man did fleece (admemordii).But Plautus again, in the Trigemini, said neither praememordisse nor praemomordisse, but praemorsisse, in the following line: 3
Had I not fled into your midst,Atta too in the Conciliatrix says: 4
Methinks he'd bitten me (praemorsisset).
A bear, he says, bit him (memordisse).Valerius Antias too, in the forty-fifth book of his Annals, has left on record peposci, not poposci 5 in this passage: “Finally Licinius, tribune of the commons, charged him with high treason and asked (peposcit) from the praetor Marcus Marcius a day for holding the comitia.” 6 In the same way Atta in the Aedilicia says: 7
But he will be afraid, if I do prick him (pepugero).Probus has noted that Aelius Tubero also, in his work dedicated to Gaius Oppius, wrote occecurrit, and he has quoted him as follows: 8 “If the general form should present itself (occecurrerit).” Probus also observed that Valerius Antias in the twenty-second book of his Histories wrote speponderant, and he quotes his words as follows: 9 “Tiberius Gracchus, ”
