[894] Electo Med. and originally Gud. ‘Delecto’ Gud. corrected. ‘Eiecto’ Heyne joins with ‘domino’ understood, ‘his fallen master:’ but it is better to take it with ‘armo,’ ‘putting out his shoulder,’ for ‘eiicere’ appears to have been the ordinary word for dislocating a limb: see Veget. Vet. 3. 41, “Si iumentum cervicem eiecerit aut laxaverit (luxaverit?):” ib. 45, “Quod si eiecerit iuxta consuetudinem ad rotam armum, reponito:” comp. also Hyginus Fab. 57 and Muncker's note (Forc. s. v. ‘eiicere’ and ‘eiecto’). Silius' imitation 10. 255 leaves it doubtful how he understood ‘eiecto:’ “quamquam Cernuus inflexo sonipes effuderat armo.” ‘Cernuus,’ with head bowed forwards. The word occurs twice in the extant fragments of Lucilius: Sat. 3. 43, “Cernuus extemplo plantas convestit (convertit?) honestas:” 27. 34, “Modo sorsum modo deorsum tanquam collus cernui.” ‘Cernuare’ is used of a tumbler by Varro ap. Non. 1. 76, and of a horse thrusting down his head by Solinus 45. ‘Cernulus’ Rom., Pal. corrected, and originally Gud.
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