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FROM the verb pando the ancients made passum, not pansum, and with the preposition ex they formed expassum, not expansum. Caecilius in the Fellowbreakfasters says: v. 197, Ribbeck3. That yesterday he'd looked in from the roof, Had this announced, and straight the veil The flame-coloured (yellow) bridal veil. was spread (expassum). A woman too is said to be capillo passo, or with disordered hair, when it is hanging down and loosened, and we say passis manibus and velis passis of hands and sails stretched out and spread. Therefore Plautus in his Braggart Captain, changing an a into an e, as is usual in compound words, uses dispessis for dispassis in these lines: 359 Cf. iv. 17. 8; a became e before two consonants, i before a single one, except r. Methinks you thus must die without the gate, When you shall hold the cross with hands outstretched (dispessis).
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Of the singular death of Milo of Croton. The same story is told by Strabo, vi. 1. 12 (iii, p. 45, L.C.L.).
