ponenda sunt. So in Virg. Ecl. 6. 53 ille latus niueum molli fultus hyacintho, where it is absurd to say a bull is propped or supported on hyacinths, but perfectly appropriate to say he presses or is pressed by them. So, too, in Lucr. 2. 100 partim interuallis magnis confulta resultant, rebound after being pressed together. So probably effulcio in Appul. Met. 2. 34 stragulis aggeratis in cumulum et effultis in cubitum. From the original meaning of 'pressing' we get two chief offshoots: A, pressing out, stuffing; B, pressing together, making firm, strengthening.

The compound infulcio is particularly worthy of attention. It presents uses exactly corresponding to those of infarcio ; but uses which are apparently later for infulcio than for infarcio, and which form a passage from the original meaning to its first modification A. Compare Columella 12. 53. 2 in eas partes largum salem infarcito with Suetonius Tib. 53 rursus mori inedia destinanti per uim ore diducto infulciri cibum iussit; and in a metaphorical sense Cicero Orator 69. 231 infarciens uerba with Seneca Epist. 106. 5 aliud (uerbum) infulcire.

Still nearer to the ordinary meaning of farcio is the use of offulcio in Appuleius Metam. 1. 10 uulnus spongia offulciens, Met. 4. 70 multis laciniis offulto uulnere and Persius (or Nero?) 1. 78 Antiopa aerumnis cor luctificabile fulta, stuffed with griefs' (compare cor dolis refertum1 which is the Greek κραδίη δόλοισι πεφραγμένη), not, as Gifford, 'propped with dolorifick teen.'

The sense B, fortify, secure, is not, so far as I know, found in farcio. But we have it in the Greek opáσow as in Hom. Od. 5. 256 σχεδίην φράξε ῥιπέσσι (compare φάρξαι πόλισμα Aesch. Sept. 63), &c. : and in the Latin fulcio in Aen. 8. 227 fultos obice postes, Ov. A. A. 2. 244 adposita ianua fulta

sera.

Other meanings of fulcio need only a passing mention. They are either slight modifications of those already referred to or else of that of prop, its commonest meaning, which is derived from that of press 2, a prop being something pressed downwards and pressing upwards, and a fulcrum a point of pressure.

1 Quoted by Curtius 1. c.

2 By no means vice versa as Mr Paley, note on Propert. 1. c.

18 (a)

INDEX TO THE NOTES.

The first number gives the page, the second the verse. The
proper names in italics are those writers whose coincidences
with Propertius are quoted in the notes. See Introduction,
Chapter V., Literary History.