Book 12
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Marcus Varro, in the second book of his Latin Language addressed to Marcellus, thinks Fr. 56, G. & S. that we ought to use aedituus rather than aedituus, because the latter is made up by a late invention, while the former is pure and of ancient origin. Laevius too, in the Protesilaodamia I think, used claustritumum Fr. 16, Bährens. of one who had charge of the fastenings of a door, evidently using the same formation by which he saw that aeditumus, or one who guards the temples, is made. In the most reliable copies of Marcus Tullius' Fourth Oration against Verres I find it written: ii. 4. 96. The custodians (aeditumi) and guards quickly perceive it, but in the ordinary copies aeditui is read. There is an Atellan farce of Pomponius' entitled Aeditumus. In it is this line: v. 2, Ribbeck. 3 As soon as I attend you and keep your temple-door (aeditumor). Titus Lucretius too in his poem vi. 1273. speaks of aedituentes, instead of aeditui. Both aeditumus and aedituus are good Latin words. The former is made like finitumus and originally meant belonging to a temple; it derived its meaning guardian of a temple from aedituus (aedes and tueor).
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That those are deceived who sin in the confident hope of being undetected, since there is no permanent concealment of wrongdoing; and on that subject a discourse of the philosopher Peregrinus and a saying of the poet Sophocles.
