Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookhis own cause. Van Heusde refers to no one in particular, but Corpet supposes there is an allusion to Caius Gracchus, who is mentioned by Plutarch as having been "the first of the Romans who used violent gesticulation in speaking, walking up and down the rostrum, and pulling his toga from his shoulder." What connection the Fragment in which Crassus and Mucius are mentioned has with the main subject, as also the allusion in Fr. 5 to some immodest female, is not known. 1 ... who has neither hackney nor slave, nor a single attendant. His bag, and all the money that he has, he carries with him. He sups with his bag, sleeps with it, bathes with it. The man's whole hope centres in his bag alone. All the rest of his existence is bound up in this bag![1687] 2 ... whom not even bulls bred in the Lucanian mountains, could draw away with their sturdy necks, in one long pull.[1688] 3 ... this, I say, he will bray and bawl out from the Rostra, running about like a courier, and loudly calling for help.[1689] 4 ... they think they can offend with impunity, and by their nobility easily keep aloof those who are not their equals.[1690] 5 6 If he has spattered his garments with mud, at that he foolishly sets up a loud and hearty laugh-- 7 8 ... what you would wish him to do-- 9 Lewdness fills their faces; impudence and prodigality-- 10 if you know him, he is not a big man, but a big-nosed, lean fellow-- 11 That alone withstood adverse fortune and circumstances. 12 13 Three beds stretched on ropes, by Deucalion.[1691] 14 ... down and velvet, or any other luxury.[1692] 15 The hair-dresser sports round the impluvium, in a circle.[1693] 16 ... this he believes some one begg'd from your bath[1694] 17 ... he makes a good bargain, who sells a cross-bred horse.[1695] 18 ... they think one of their own should enter and pass over.[1696] 19 ... they do not prevent your going farther--[1697] 20 ... to bid "All hail!" is to wish health to a friend.[1698] 21 Give round the drink, beginning from the top--[1699] 22 The Sardinian land 23 ... both the things we abound in, and those we lack. FOOTNOTES: [1687] _Bulgam_ (cf. ii., Fr. 16), from the Greek μολγός, "a hide or skin" «cf. Arist., Frag. 157; Schol. ad Equit., 959», is a leathern bag suspended from the arm or girdle, and seems to have answered the purpose either of a traveling valise or purse. Compare the gypciére of the middle ages. Hor., Ep., II., ii., 40. Juv., viii., 120; xiv., 297. Suet., Vitell., xvi. It was a Tarentine word, as we learn from Pollux, x., 187. From bulga comes the Spanish _bolsa_, the French _bourse_, and our _purse_. _Dormit._ Hor., i., Sat. i., 70. Virg., Geor., ii., 507, "Condit opes alius, defossoque incubat auro." [1688] _Protelo._ The ablative of the old protelum, which is interpreted as "the continuous, unintermitting pull of oxen applied to a dead weight." Nothing could more forcibly express the hopeless task of attempting to detach the miser from his gains. Cf. xii., Fr. 2. Plin., IX., xv., 17. Lucret., ii., 532; iv., 192. [1689] _Concursans._ iv., Fr. 17. _Ancarius._ The ἄγγαρος, "a mounted courier of the Persians," such as were kept in readiness at regular stages for carrying the royal dispatches. (Cf. Herod., viii., 98; iii., 126. Xen., Cyr., VIII., vi., 17. Æsch., Agam., 282. Marco Polo describes the same institution as existing among the Mongol Tartars. Heeren, Ideen, i., p. 497. Cf. Welcker's Æschyl., Trilog., p. 121.) The name was then applied to any porter, or carrier of burdens, and hence specially to "an ass," which, Forcellini says, is its meaning here. Hence _rudet_, cf. Pers., Sat. iii., 9. _Quiritare_, is to appeal to the citizens for help, by calling out "Cursum," etc. Cic. ad Div., x., 32. It was the _city_ cry. Countrymen were said "Jubilare." Varro, L. L., v. 7. Cf. Liv., xxxix., 8. Plin., Pan., xxix. Quinctil., iii., 8, "Rogatus sententiam, si modo est sanus, non quiritet." [1690] _Facul_, i. e., facilè. "Haud facul fœmina invenietur bona." Pacuv. ap. Non., ii., 331. "Difficul" is used in the same manner. [1691] Descriptive probably of the meanness and antiquity of the miser's furniture. Grabatum, from the Macedonian word κράβατος, is used for the coarsest kind of bed. Cf. Cic., Div., ii., 63. Mart., vi., Ep. xxxix., 4; xii., Ep. xxxii., 12, "Ibat tripes grabatus et tripes mensa;" where Martial is describing a somewhat similarly luxurious establishment. Virg., Moret., 5. Sen., Epist. xviii., 5; xx., 10. These sort of beds seem to have been supported on ropes. Cf. Petr., Sat. 97. Mart., v., Ep. lxii., 6, "Putris et abrupta fascia reste jacet." S. Mark, ii., 9. (See the lines attributed to Sulpicia, quoted in the old Schol. to Juv., Sat. vi., 538. Lucil., xi., Fr. 13.) [1692] _Amphitape._ Lib. i., Fr. 21. [1693] The _Atrium_, which was generally the principal apartment in the house, had an opening in the centre of the roof, called Compluvium, or Cavum Ædium, toward which the roof sloped so as to throw the rainwater into a cistern in the floor (commonly made of marble), called Impluvium. (See the drawings of the houses of Pansa and Sallust, Pompeii, vol. ii., p. 108, 120. Bekker's Gallus, p. 257.) The two terms are used indifferently. The _Cinerarius_ seems to be the same as the Ciniflo (Hor., i., Sat. ii., 98, "a cinere flando," Acron. in loc.), "the slave who heated the Calamistri, or curling pins." Bekker's Gallus, p. 440. [1694] _Latrinam_, quasi lavatrinam, "the private bath;" balneum being more commonly applied to the public one. Cf. Plaut., Curc., IV., iv., 24. Turneb. It is sometimes put for a worse place, as we say "wash-house." Vid. Bekker's Gallus, p. 265. [1695] _Musimo_ is put for any hybrid animal, as a mule, etc. "Animal ex duobus animalibus diversæ speciei procreatum." It is applied to a cross between a goat and a sheep. So Plin., VIII., xlix., 75. Compare the Greek μούσμων. [1696] See Argument. _Suam_ seems to imply "one of their own order." Nonius explains _innubere_ by "transire," because women when married pass to their husbands' houses: it generally means the same as nubere. But Cort. (ad Lucan, iii., 23, "Innupsit tepido pellex Cornelia busto") explains it "marrying _beneath one's_ station," which is very probably its force here. See Bentley's note on the line, who suggests the emendation "transitivè," no doubt correctly. [1697] _Porcent_, i. e., porro arcent, prohibent, used by Ennius, Pacuvius, and Accius. [1698] "The conventional phrase of forced courtesy implies the familiarity of equal friendship." See Arg. [1699] Ter., And., III., ii, 4, "Quod jussi ei dari bibere, date." _Ab summo_, i. e., beginning from him that sits at the top of the table. Vid. Schol. ad Hom., Il., i, 597. Cic., de Sen., xiv. Plaut., Pers., V., i., 19. As V., ii., 41, "Da, puere, ab summo: Age tu interibi ab infimo da suavium." So in Greek, ἐν κύκλῳ πίνειν. BOOK VII. AR |