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He bids each one, he says, Frag. 23, Peter2. go to his own house and enjoy his possessions. Frunisci, meaning enjoy, was somewhat rare in the days of Marcus Tullius and became still rarer after that time, and its Latinity was questioned by those who were unacquainted with our early literature. However, fruniscor is not only good Latin, but it is more elegant and pleasing than fruor, from which it is formed in the same way as fatiscor from fateor. Quintus Metellus Numidicus, who is known to have used the Latin tongue with purity and simplicity, in the letter which he sent when in exile To the Domitii, wrote as follows: They indeed were cut off from every right and honour, I lack neither water nor fire and I enjoy (fruiscor) the greatest glory. Novius, in his Atellan farce entitled The Miser, uses this word: v. 77, Ribbeck3.
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And the Romans, says Quadrigarius, rag. 24, Peter2. get possession of (copiantur) many arms and a great supply of provisions, and enormous booty. Copiantur is a soldier's word, and you will not readily find it in the pleaders of civil suits; it is formed in the same way as lignantur, or gather wood, pabulantur, or forage, and aquantur, or get water.
