Book 13
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Moreover, Publius Nigidius, a man of prodigious learning, explains the word frater, or brother, by a no less clever and ingenious derivation: Fr. 50, Swoboda. A frater, he says, is so called because he is, as it were, fere alter, that is, 'almost another self.' These derivations are, of course, purely fanciful; soror and frater are cognate with sister and brother, and are not of Latin derivation.
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Marcus Varro's opinion of the just and proper number of banqueters; his views about the dessert and about sweetmeats.
