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Dignor, too, veneror, confiteor and testor are treated as common verbs. Thus we find in Virgil: Aen. iii. 475. Of wedlock high with Venus worthy deemed (dignale), and Aen. iii. 460. Revered in prayer (venerata), shall grant a voyage safe. Moreover, confessi aeris, meaning a debt of which admission is made, is written in the Twelve Tables in these words: iii. 1. For an admitted debt, when the matter has been taken into court, let the respite be thirty days. Also in those same Tables we find this: viii. 22. Whoever shall allow himself to be summoned as a witness or shall act as a balance-holder, That is, in a symbolic sale, when the purchaser touched a balance with a coin. See note on v. 19. 3 (vol. i., p. 436). if he does not give his testimony, let him be regarded as dishonoured and incapable of giving testimony in the future.
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That Metellus Numidicus borrowed a new form of expression from Greek usage.
