Book 8
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A DISCUSSION that I had in the town of Eleusis with a conceited grammarian who, although ignorant of the tenses of verbs and the exercises of schoolboys, ostentatiously proposed abstruse questions of a hazy and formidable character, to impress the minds of the unlearned.
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Would wish a lying scoundrel. Whether these words, from Nonius, II., p. 120, 12, M., belong here is uncertain.
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THE witty reply of Socrates to his wife Xanthippe, when she asked that they might spend more money for their dinners during the Dionysiac festival.
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ON the meaning of plerique omnes, or almost all, in the early literature; and on the probable Greek origin of that expression.
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THAT eupsones, a word used by the people of Africa, is not Phoenician, but Greek.
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A HIGHLY entertaining discussion of the philosopher Favorinus with a tiresome person who held forth on the double meaning of certain words; also some unusual expressions from the poet Naevius and from Gnaeus Gellius; and further, some investigations of the derivation of words by Publius Nigidius.
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How the poet Laberius was ignominiously treated by Gaius Caesar, with a quotation of Laberius' own words on that subject. See Macr. Sat. ii. 7.
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A pleasant and remarkable story from the books of Heracleides of Pontus. This heading, of uncertain number, is quoted in Grammatici Latini ii. 246, 6, K, and attributed to Agellius, Noctium Atticarum viii., or according to the greater number of MSS., viiii.
