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In limine primo, alluding to the Roman custom of burying new-born infants in suggrundis, under the eaves of the house, as has been pointed out by a writer in the Saturday Review, Sept. 25, 1858, art. on Gladstone's Homeric Studies. Here of course it is the threshold of Orcus that is spoken of. Wakef., whom Ribbeck follows, ingeniously punctuated after flentes, connecting in limine primo with vitae, which he separated from exsortis—an arrangement supported by Lucan 2. 106, quoted by Cerda, nec primo in limine vitae Infantis miseri nascentia rumpere fata, but on the whole repudiated by the present passage, even independently of the reviewer's illustration. Plato deals very summarily with these infants in the vision of Er, Rep. 10, p. 615 c, tw=n de\ eu)qu\s genome/nwn [a)poqano/ntwn] kai\ o)li/gon xro/non biou/ntwn pe/ri a)/lla e)/legen ou)k a)/cia mnh/mhs