Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookire only, was dedicated to Ælius Stilo. [1600] _Fr._ 3. "Every god that is worshiped by man must needs in all solemn rites and invocations be styled 'Father;' not only for honor's, but also for reason's sake. Since he is both more ancient than man, and provides man with life and health and food, as a father doth." Lactant., Inst. Div., iv., 3. [1601] _Tubulus._ C. Hostilius Tubulus was elected prætor B.C. 210 (Liv., xxvii., 6), and was prætor peregrinus next year. (Cf. Fr. inc. 97.) He became infamous from his openly receiving bribes, so that the next year, on the motion of the tribune P. Scævola, he was impeached by Cnæus Servilius Cæpio the consul, B.C. 203. P. Cornelius Lentulus _Lupus_ first appears as one of the persons sent to Rome, to announce the victory over Perseus. (Liv., xliv., 45.) He afterward served the offices of curule ædile (Fr. 9), and censor (Fr. 12). He was consul B.C. 156. Carbo is L. Papirius Carbo, the friend of C. Gracchus. We learn from Aulus Gellius (xv., 21), that "Son of Neptune" was applied to men of the fiercest and most blood-thirsty dispositions, who seemed to have so little _humanity_ about them, that they might have been sprung from the _sea_. [1602] _Carneades_ (cf. Diog. Laert., IV., ix.) of Cyrene, disciple of Chrysippus, and founder of the new Academy, was celebrated for his great acuteness of intellect, which he displayed to great advantage when he came as embassador from Athens to Rome, B.C. 155. [1603] _Ædilem_ refers to Lupus, who was made curule ædile with L. Valerius Flaccus, A.U.C. 591 (B.C. 163), and exhibited the Ludi Megalenses the year Terence's Heauton Timorumenos was produced. A law was called Satura which contained several enactments under one bill; hence, according to Diomedes, Satire derives its name from the variety of its subjects. A person was said to be _legibus solutus_ who was freed from the obligation of any _one_ law; afterward the emperors were so styled, as being above _all_ laws; but at first there was some reservation, as we find Augustus praying to be freed from the obligation of the Voconian law. (In the year B.C. 199, C. Valerius Flaccus was created curule ædile together with C. Cornelius Cethegus. Being flamen dialis, and therefore not allowed to take an oath, he prayed, "ut legibus solveretur." The consuls, by a decree of the senate, got the tribunes to obtain a plebis-scitum, that his brother Lucius, the prætor elect, might be allowed to take the oath for him. Liv., xxxi., 50.) [1604] Fr. 12 refers also to Lupus, for he was censor A.U.C. 607, with L. Marcius Censorinus. [1605] _Priva._ Cf. Liv., xxx., 43, "Ut privos lapides silices, privasque verbenas secum ferrent." The acharne was a fish known to the Greeks, the best being caught off Ænos in Thrace. Athenæus mentions the ἄχαρνος together with θύννου κεφάλαιον, "thunny-heads" (vii., p. 620, D), in a passage from the Cyclopes of Callias. Ennius also (ap. Apul. Apolog.) has "calvaria pinguia acharnæ." [1606] Mercer suggests "coitum" as the missing word, which Gerlach adopts. Cf. Hom., Il., xiv., 317, οὐδ' ὁπότ' ἠρασάμην Ἰξιονίης ἀλόχοιο. The lady's name was Dia, daughter of Deioneus. _Contendere_, "to compare." Cf. vii., Fr. 6. [1607] L. Ælius Stilo (vid. arg.) was a Roman knight, a native of Lanuvium, and was called Stilo, "quod orationes nobilissimo cuique scribere solebat." He had also the nickname of Præconinus, because his father had exercised the office of præco. He was a distinguished grammarian, and a friend of the learned and great; and, it is said, accompanied Q. Metellus Numidicus into banishment. Vid. Suet., de Gram. Ill., II., iii. Ernest Clav. Cic. [1608] Cf. Juv., viii., 172, "Mitte sed in magnâ legatum quære popina;" and 1. 158; xi., 81, "Qui meminit calidæ sapiat quid vulva popinæ." [1609] _Prætextæ._ Cf. Pers., v., 30, "custos purpura." [1610] _Psilœ_, from ψιλὸς, "rasus," with its nap shorn like our modern velvet (villus, hence vélours). _Amphitapæ_, from ἀμφί and τάπης, a thick brocaded dress, like a rich carpet, soft on both sides. [1611] _Nodum in scirpo facere_, or _quærere_, "to make a difficulty where there is none." Cf. Ter., And., v., 4, 38. Enn. ap. Fest., "Quæritur in scirpo soliti quod dicere nodus." Plaut., Men., II., i., 22. The modern Italian is equally expressive, "_Cercar l'osso nel fico_." [1612] ἀρύταινα, from ἀρύτω, "any vessel for drawing up water." [1613] _Vulturius_ is the _older_ Latin form for _vultur_, which is found in the days of Virgil. (In Plaut., Curc., II., iii., 77, "Vulturios quatuor" is a bad throw at dice, like the "damnosa Canicula" of Persius, iii., 49, and is said to be called so for the same reason, because vultures devour, i. e., ruin men.) [1614] Cf. Pers., i., 1. BOOK II. ARGUMENT. On the subject of this book the commentators differ: some supposing that it was directed against luxury and effeminacy. But the avarice and licentiousness of the times form a considerable portion of the writings of Lucilius, and there are very few of his Satires in which these are not incidentally glanced at. From the sixth Fragment, which after all is a very obscure one, Ellendt supposed it was written to expose Æmilius Scaurus. Corpet maintains that it contained the description of a sanguinary brawl, in which many persons were engaged; that one person was taken up for dead, his house purified (Fr. 22), and all preparations made for his funeral, when some one saw another lying in his bier. Fr. 1. It is quite clear that Fr. 14, 24, and perhaps 2, refer to luxury; if by Manlius, in the second Fragment, is intended Cn. Manlius Vulso. (Vid. note.) 1 ... whom, when Hortensius and Posthumius had seen, the rest, too, saw that he was not on his bier, and that another was lying there. 2 Hostilius ... against the plague and ruin which that halting Manlius, too, «introduced among» us.[1615] 3 ... which were all removed in two hours, when the sun set, and was enveloped in darkness.[1616] 4 ... that he, having been ill-treated, attacked the other's jaws, and beat the breath out of him. 5 Now for the name: next I will tell you what I have got out of the witnesses, by questioning.[1617] 6 ... which I charm and wrest and elicit from Æmilius.[1618] 7 I say not. Even though he conquer, let him go like a vagabond into exile, and roam an outlaw.[1619] 8 The prætor is now your friend; but if Gentilis die this year, he will be mine--[1620] 9 ... if he has left on his posteriors the mark of a thick and large-headed snake.[1621] 10 Of a rough-actioned, sorry, slow-paced jade--[1622] 11 ... that unclean, shameless, plundering fellow.[1623] 12 Sleeved tunics of gold tissue, scarfs, drawers, turbans.[1624] 13 What say you? Why was it done? What is that guess of yours? 14 ... who may now ruin you, Nomentanus, you rascal, in every thing else! 15 |