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POPOSCI, momordi, pupugi and cucurri seem to be the approved forms, and to-day they are used by almost all better-educated men. But Quintus Ennius in his Satires wrote memorderit with an e, and not momorderit, as follows: 63, Vahlen2. 'Tis not my way, as if a dog had bit me (memorderit). So too Laberius in the Galli: 49, Ribbeck3. Now from my whole estate A hundred thousand have I bitten off (memordi). The same Laberius too in his Colorator: 27, Ribbeck3. And when, o'er slow fire cooked, I came beneath her teeth, Twice, thrice she bit (memordit). Also Publius Nigidius in his second book On Animals: Fr. 112, Swoboda. As when a serpent bites (memordit) one, a hen is split and placed upon the wound. Likewise Plautus in the Aulularia: Fr. 2, p. 95, Götz. How he the man did fleece (admemordii). But Plautus again, in the Trigemini, said neither praememordisse nor praemomordisse, but praemorsisse, in the following line: 120, Götz. Had I not fled into your midst, Methinks he'd bitten me (praemorsisset). Atta too in the Conciliatrix says: 6, Ribbeck3. A bear, he says, bit him (memordisse). Valerius Antias too, in the forty-fifth book of his Annals, has left on record peposci, not poposci Fr. 60, Peter2. in this passage: Finally Licinius, tribune of the commons, charged him with high treason and asked (peposcit) from the praetor Marcus Marcius a day for holding the comitia. The trial was held before the comitia centuriata.
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In the same way Atta in the Aedilicia says: Fr. 2, Ribbeck3.
