remarkably close resemblance is seen in maximum vere argumentum est naturam ipsam de immortalitate animorum tacitam judicare, quod omnibus curæ sunt, et maxumæ quidem, quæ post mortem futura sint (C. Thus, besides the examples given in § 1161, may be mentioned such as cura (nostra C. Yet used in a concrete manner but that is not a strong objection there are enough such to show that the thing is possible, and indeed easy and there is proof of the general truth in the fact, that many of these words are also found used predicatively in the nominative. But the etymological formation, though an objective, is not a certain, criterion either way: an examination of the list will show that on the whole the words, used in this construction in more than isolated instances, are words of a somewhat ambiguous use, which denote sometimes a quality or an action, and sometimes an object which manifests that quality or action. cordi, cura, crimini, damno, dedecori, exemplo, dono, fraudi, frugi, honori, laudi, malo, oneri, operæ, pignori, præda, saluti. The rest (over 50) are various, but contain some of the words most in use, e.g. Of stems derived from adjectives there are 8 each in -tāt, and -ia. (Apuleius does not come within my range.) Of other verbals, there are 14 with stems in -tiōn, but they are found rarely in more than one passage stems in -io are 20 in number and oftener used in -ia only 4 (from verbs) in -ōr 10 in -mento 16 in -culo 9. The stems in -tu, between 20 and 30 in number, are with the exception of optentui, ostentui, potui, quæstui, sumptui and usui rare, and found chiefly in Varro and Tacitus.

Indeed there seems to have been on the one hand something which suggested abstract terms, and again an instinct which militated against an indiscriminate use of them. Abstract cura, gloriæ, odio, saluti, voluptati, usui, invidiæ, pudori.

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