rus, private or particular.) a private law, a special right.-Legion, from legio, a body of men chosen for military service.-Collect, delectable, diligent, elect, elegant, elegance, select, intelligent, intelligence, intellect. Neglect, negligence, from negligo, (for nec, not,) I do not choose.-Sacrilege, sacrilegious, (see SACER.)

LEGO, I send a message, No. II.

Legation, legate, from legatus, a person sent; legacy, from legatum, a thing sent as a present.-Allege, delegate, college, colleague.

LIBER, free, easy, disengaged.

Liberal, liberty, libertine, from libertinus, one who used excess of freedom.-Liberate.-Deliberate, from delibero, I use the right of a free man, I debate.-Deliver. -Liber, (gen. libri,) the bark of a tree, (so named, it is said, from being easily separated from the other part of the tree,) also a book*; libel, from libellus, a

* The materials first used for writing were the leaves, or inner bark, (liber) of trees, whence the word liber was applied to a book. The leaves of trees are still used for writing by several nations of India. Afterwards linen and tables covered with wax were used. About the time of Alexander the Great, paper first began to be manufactured from an Egyptian plant or reed, called Papyrus, whence our word paper. The exportation of paper being prohibited by one of the Ptolemies, out of envy against Eumenes, king of Pergamus, who endeavoured to rival him in the magnificence of his library; the use of parchment was discovered. The art of making paper from cotton or silk was invented in the East about the beginning of the tenth century; and, in imitation of it, from linen rags in the fourteenth century. The skin of sheep when prepared for writing is called

little book; library, librarian, from librarius, one who is concerned in books.

parchment; of calves, vellum, (as if vitulinum, of calves, the word corium, skin, being understood.) The instrument used for writing on the waxen tables, or other materials, was an iron pencil with a sharp point, called stylus, whence the English word stile. As the Romans never wore a sword in the city, they often, upon sudden provocation, used the stylus as a weapon: hence, probably, the stiletto of the modern Italians. The Romans commonly wrote on one side only of the paper or parchment, and always joined one sheet (schedu) to the end of another, till they finished what they had to write, and then rolled it up on a cylinder; hence volumen, a volume, from volvo, I roll up. Julius Cæsar, in his letters to the senate, introduced the custom of dividing them into pagine, (whence our word page,) and folding them into the form of a book: After this, all applications to the Emperors, and messages from them to the senate, or public orders to the people, were written and folded in this form, called libelli, whence our word libel. A writ conferring any exclusive right or privilege was called diploma*; this was similar to what we call a patent, or letters patent, that is, letters open to the inspection of all. [Patere, (whence patens, patentis,) to open, or to expose to view.] Any writing, whether on paper, parchment, tablets, or whatever materials, folded like our books, with a number of distinct leaves one above another, was called codex. In after times, coder was applied to a collection of laws; hence our words code. Codicillus, the diminutive of codex, was applied chiefly to any addition made to a person's last will; whence the English word codicil. Litera, commonly signifies a letter of the alphabet, yet all kinds of writings were called litera; but literæ is most fre

* See Student's Manual.

LIGO, I tie, bind.

Ligament. Alligation, oblige, obligation.-Religion.

LINQUO, I leave.

Delinquent, delinquency, relinquish, dereliction, relic, oblique, obliquity.

LITERA, a letter.

Letter, literal, literary, literature, illiterate, obliterate. LOCUS, a place.-LOCO, I place. Local.-Collocation, dislocate, dislocation.

LONGUS, distant.

Long, longitude, longevity, from longævitas, (atas, age, life,) long life.-Oblong, prolong.

LOQUOR, I speak.—LOCUTUS, spoken. Locution, loquacity.-Colloquial, circumlocution, eloquent, eloquence, elocution, obloquy, soliloquy, (solus, alone.) Ventriloquist, (see VENTRILOQUIST, Part I.) LUDO, I play, sport, laugh.—LUSUS, played. Ludicrous. allude, allusion collusion, delude, elude, illusion.

LUO, I wash.-LUTUS, washed. Ablution, alluvion, dilute, pollute.

quently applied to epistolary writings. Epistola applied to letters sent to those who were absent. Adams's Roman Antiquities.

was

See

* Epistola (epistle) is derived from the Greek. See Student's Manual.

LUX, LUCIS, also LUMEN, LUMINIS, light.; Lucid. Elucidate, pellucid.-Lucubration, from lucubratio, working by candle light.-Luminous, luminary, from luminare, a body which yields light.-Illuminale..

M.

MAGNUS, great.-MAJOR, greater. MAGNITUDE, magnanimity, from magnanimus, (animus, the mind,) main; major, majority, from majores, those greater than ourselves; majesty, from majestas, greatness.-Master, a corruption of magister, one who is greater, a teacher; magistrate, from magistro, . I . govern.

MALE, badly.-MALUS, bad.

Malice, malignity, malediction, (see Dico,) malefactor, (see FACIO,) malformation, (see FORMA.)

MANEO, I wait.-MANSUS, waited.

Mansion, from mansio, a place to tarry in.--Permanent, permanency, remain.

MANUS, the hand.

Manual, manufactory, (see FACIO,) manuscript, (see SCRIBO.)

MATURUS, ripe.

Mature, maturity.-Immature, premature.

MEDITOR, I muse.

Meditate.-Premeditate.

METIOR, I measure.-MENSUS, measured. Mete, measure, mensuration, dimension, immense.

MIGRO, I remove.

Migrate.-Emigrate.-Transmigation.

MINOR, less.

Minor, minority, from minores, those less or younger than ourselves; minute, from minutus, diminished, a small portion.-Diminish, diminution.

MITTO, I send.—MISSUS, sent.

Mission, missionary, missile.-Admit, admission, commit, commission, demise, dismiss, emissary, emit, emission, intermit, omit, permit, premise, promise, compromise, remit, submit, surmise, transmit.

MENIA, walls.—MUNIA, duties, especially public duties.

Menial, municipal.-Community, communion, communicate, excommunicate.-Immunity.

MOLA, a millstone, flour.-MOLO, I use a millstone, I grind.

Emolument, from emolumentum, that which is gained by grinding, namely, profit; immolate, from immolo, I sprinkle flour on a victim, I sacrifice.

MOLES, a mass.-MULTUS, (for Molitus, numbers heaped,) muny.

Multitude, multitudinous, multiform, (see FORMA,) multipede, (see PES,) multiply. (see PLICO.)--Molest, molestation, from molestus, heavy, like a heap, troublesome, vexatious.-Demolish, demolition. MONEO, I teach, advise.-MONITUS, taught. Admonish, admonition.-Monitor, from monitor, the person who advises; monument, from monumentum, that which reminds; monster, monstrous, from monstrum,