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[15arg] That Sisenna in his Histories has frequently used adverbs of the type of celatim, vellicatim and saltuatim.WHILE diligently reading the History of Sisenna, I observed that he used adverbs of this form: cursim (rapidly), properatim (hastily), celatim, vellicatim, salluatim. Of these the first two, since they are more common, do not require illustration. The rest are to be found in the sixth book of the Histories in these passages: βHe arranged his men in ambush as secretly (celatim) as he could.β 1 Also in another place: 2 βI have written of the events of one summer in Asia and Greece in a consecutive form, that I might not by writing piecemeal or in disconnected fashion (vellicatim aut saltuatim) confuse the minds of my readers.β 3