Noctes Atticae

Gellius, Aulus

Gellius, Aulus. The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius. Rolfe, John C., translator. Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, 1927 (printing).

Of certain new words which I had met in the Miimiambics of Gnaeus Matius.

GNAEUS MATIUS, a learned man, in his Mimiambics properly and fitly coined the word recentatur for the idea expressed by the Greek a)nai eou=tai, that is

it is born again and is again made new.
The lines in which the word occurs are these: [*](Frag. 9, Bährens.)
  1. E'en now doth Phoebus gleam, again is born (recentatur)
  2. The common light to joys of mortal men.
Matius too, in the same Mimiarmbics, says edulcare, meaning
to sweeten,
in these lines: [*](Frag. 10, Bährens.)

  1. And therefore it is fit to sweeten (edulcare) life,
  2. And bitter cares with wisdom to control.
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