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Marcus Varro's words, in the fifth book of his Disciplinae, are as follows: p. 202, Bipont. It is one thing to be made praetor quarto, and another quartum; for quarto refers to order and indicates that three were elected before him; That is, that he was fourth in order of election. quartum refers to time and indicates that he had been made praetor three times before. Accordingly Ennius was right when he wrote: Ann. 295, Vahlen2. Quintus, his sire, a fourth time (quartum) consul is, and Pompeius was timid when, in order to avoid writing consul tertium or tertio on his theatre, he did not write the final letters. He wrote tert.; see § 7. Tertium is correct; the inscription on the Pantheon reads MA. Agrippa, L.f., cos. Tertium fecit.
