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Pacuvius' epitaph is the most modest and simple, worthy of his dignity and good taste: p. 296, 5, Bährens. Young man, although you haste, this little stone Entreats thee to regard it, then to read its tale. Here lie the bones of Marcus, hight Pacuvius. Of this I would not have you unaware. Good-bye.
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Marcus Varro's definition of the word indutiae ; to which is added a somewhat careful investigation of the derivation of that word.
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MARCUS VARRO, in that book of his Antiquities of Man which treats Of War and Peace, xxii, fr. 1, 2, Mirsch. defines indutiae (a truce) in two ways. A truce, he says, is peace for a few days in camp; and again in another place, A truce is a holiday in war. But each of these definitions seems to be wittily and happily concise rather than clear or satisfactory. For a truce is not a peace—since war continues, although fighting ceases—nor is it restricted to a camp or to a few days only. For what are we to say if a truce is made for some months, and the troops withdraw from camp into the towns? Have we not then also a truce? Again, if a truce is to be defined as only lasting for a few days, what are we to say of the fact, recorded by Quadrigarius in the first book of his Annals, that Gaius Pontius the Samnite asked the Roman dictator for a truce of six hours? Fr. 21, Peter. The definition a holiday in war, too, is rather happy than clear or precise.
