Kitap 8
1
Whether the expression hesterna nocte, for last night, is right or wrong, and what the grammarians have said about those words; also that the decemvirs in the Twelve Tables viii. 12. used nox for noctu, meaning by night. See Macr. Sat. i. 4.
2
TEN words pointed out to me by Favorinus which, although in use by the Greeks, are of foreign origin and barbarous; also the same number given him by me which, though of general and common use by those who speak Latin, are by no means Latin and are not to be found in the early literature.
3
IN what terms and how severely the philosopher Peregrinus in my hearing rebuked a young Roman of equestrian rank, who stood before him inattentive and constantly yawning.
3
. . . and saw him continually yawning and noticed the degenerate dreaminess expressed in his attitude of mind and body. This fragment is preserved by Nonius, II, p. 121, 19, s. v. halucinari.
4
THAT Herodotus, that most famous writer of history, was wrong in saying vi. 37. that the pine alone of all trees never puts forth new shoots from the same roots, after being cut down; and that he stated as an established fact ii. 22. about rainwater and snow a thing which had not been sufficiently investigated.
