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But this instance shows how careful we have to be in such matters. As used at Justin 37.2.6, stagnare means not ‘strengthen’, as Yardley asserts, but ‘treat by means of a draught’. It is this specialised meaning that may be late, though it might just be colloquial or technical; it is found several times in Vegetius' Mulomedicina, always in a context of treating sick animals (Eng. ‘drench’ is used similarly; see OED s.v. 1). The transitive verb in the sense ‘flood’ is classical. The instance in Jerome (In Amos 7.7= Patr. Lat. xxv. 1072D), called ‘decisive’ by Syme (ibid., p. 368), concerns a quite different verb, more properly spelt stannare.
Thus CETEDOC tells us that cognito quod (p. 120, citing only MD and the Historia Augusta) appears ten times in Ambrose, and segregatim (p. 116, citing only Prudentius) once in Augustine.
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[See Ismene Lada-Richards' article, “‘Mobile Statuary’: Refractions of Pantomime Dancing from Callistratus to Andrew Ducrow and Emma Hamilton,” IJCT 10 (2003/2004), pp. 3–37, with the “Addenda”, IJCT 11 (2004/2005), pp. 78–79.—W.H.]
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Montiglio, S., Ogden, D., Swanson, J.A. et al. Book reviews. Int class trad 12, 439–477 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12138-006-0006-y
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