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IN those highly celebrated notes of Caesellius Vindex On Archaic Terms we find a shameful oversight, although in fact the man is seldom caught napping. This error has escaped the notice of many, in spite of their diligent search for opportunities to find fault with Caesellius, even through misrepresentation. Now, Caesellius wrote that Quintus Ennius, in the thirteenth book of his Annals, used cor in the masculine gender.
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I add Caesellius' own words: Ennius used cor, like many other words, in the masculine gender; for in Annals xiii. he wrote quem cor. He then quoted two verses of Ennius 381 ff., Vahlen2. : While Hannibal, of bold breast, did me exhort Not to make war, what heart thought he was mine? The speaker is Antiochus, king of Asia. He is surprised and indignant that Hannibal, the Carthaginian, discourages his desire to make war on the people of Rome. Antiochus did not follow Hannibal's advice and suffered a crushing defeat at Thermopylae in 191 B.C. Now, Caesellius understands the lines to mean that Antiochus says: Hannibal dissuades me from making war. In so doing, what kind of heart does he think I have, and how foolish does he believe me to be, when he gives me such advice?
