Kitap 10
5
Whether avarus is a simple word or, as it appears to Publius Nigidius, a compound, made up of two parts.
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PUBLIUS NIGIDIUS, in the twenty-ninth book of his Commentaries, Fr. 42, Swoboda. declares that avarus is not a simple word, but is compounded of two parts: For that man, he says, is called avarus, or 'covetous,' who is avidus aeris, or 'eager for money;' but in the compound the letter e is lost. He also says Id. fr. 44. that a man is called by the compound term locuples, or rich, when he holds pleraque loca, that is to say, many possessions. The derivation from locus and the root ple- (of pleo, plenus, etc.) seems to be correct.
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But his statement about locuples is the stronger and more probable. As to avarus there is doubt; for why may it not seem to be derived from one single word, namely aveo, This is, of course, the accepted etymology. The derivation of amarus is uncertain; it is perhaps connected with Greek w)mo/s, raw (cf. crudus and crudelis). Sanscrit âma-s. and formed in the same way as amarus, about which there is general agreement that it is not a compound?
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That a fine was imposed by the plebeian aediles on the daughter of Appius Caecus, a woman of rank, because she spoke too arrogantly.
