Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookcated into the school of Xenocrates, and being suddenly converted by that philosopher's lecture on temperance, is told by Diogenes Laertius (in Vit., i., c. 1), and referred to by Horace, ii., Sat. iii., 253, "Faciasne quod olim mutatus Polemon? ponas insignia morbi Fasciolas, cubital, focalia, potus ut ille dicitur ex collo furtim carpsisse coronas postquam est impransi correptus voce magistri." He afterward succeeded Xenocrates; and Zeno and Arcesilaus were among his hearers. Cic., Orat., iii., 18. [1890] _Viscatis manibus._ Cf. Sen., Ep. viii., 3, "Quisquis nostrum ista _viscata_ beneficia devitet." [1891] To whom these vituperative alliterations (_vatia_, _vatrax_, _vatricosus_) are applied is uncertain. The Fabian gens are most probably alluded to. The reading "verrucosus," therefore, has been suggested, to identify the person with the great Fabius Cunctator. (Aur. Vict., Vir. Ill., 43.) But this violates the metre, and still leaves the two other epithets unaccounted for. Three famous men of the gens had the prænomen Quintus, Æmilianus, his son Allobrogicus, and his grandson. Gerlach considers the last to be the object of the Satire, as his profligacy and licentiousness were notorious. Cf. Val. Max., III., v., 2. [1892] Of the numerous repartees of Aristippus to Dionysius, mentioned by Diogenes Laertius in his Life, it is difficult to say to which Lucilius alludes. Cf. Hor., ii., Sat. iii., 10; i., Epist. xvii., 13, _seq_. [1893] Cf. Hor., Epod. xvii., 1, "Jam jam efficaci _do manus_ scientiæ." [1894] _Armillum_, "a wine-pot," vini urceolus, vas vinarium; so called quia armo, i. e., humero deportatur. Old women being naturally wine-bibbers (vinibuæ), "anus ad armillum" passed into a proverbial expression. Cf. Prov., xxvi., 11. 2 Pet., ii., 22. [1895] _Nullo honore._ Cf. Scott's Lay of Last Minstrel, "Unwept, unhonored, and unsung." [1896] _Committere_, Nonius explains by "conjungere, sociare." Cf. Virg., Æn., iii., "Delphinum caudas utero commissa luporum." Ov., Met, xii., 478, "Quà vir equo commissus erat." [1897] Nonius quotes this passage as an instance of "convenire" used in the sense of "interpellare." [1898] _Altilium._ Cf. Juv., v., 168, "Ad nos jam veniet minor altilis." Hor., i., Ep. vii., 35, "Nec somnum plebis laudo satur altilium." Cf. iv., Fr. 5. [1899] _Argutamini._ Cf. Enn. ap. Non., "Exerce linguam ut argutarier possis." Næv., ibid., "totum diem argutatur quasi cicada." Plaut., Amp., I., i., 196, "Pergin argutarier?" Bacch., I., ii., 19, "Etiam me advorsus exordire argutias?" [1900] _Percitus_ is commonly used by the comic writers for the excitement of any strong passion, as love, anger, etc. [1901] _Centenarias._ So pondere centenario. Plin., vii., 20. Cf. ad lib. v., Fr. 22. [1902] Hopelessly corrupt. Dusa proposes _puer_. [1903] _Confectores._ Connected probably with Fr. 20, and referring to the violent entrances lovers used to effect into the houses of their mistresses. Cf. lib. iv., Fr. 15; xxix., Fr. 47. Hor., iii., Od. xxvi., 7. Where Zumpt explains _vectes_ as instruments which "adhibebantur ad fores effringendas." _Conficere_, i. e., frangere. Nonius. [1904] _Subsecivus_ is properly applied to that which is "cut off and left remaining over and above," as land in surveying, etc. So horæ subsecivæ, tempus subsecivum, "leisure hours, odd times," used by Cicero and Pliny. So Seneca says of philosophy, "Exercet regnum suum: dat tempus non accipit. Non est _res subseciva_: ordinaria est, domina est: adest et jubet." Cf. the Greek phrase ἐκ παρέργου. [1905] _Concredidit._ Plaut., Aul., Prol., 6. [1906] _Sarcinator._ Plaut., Aul., III., v., 41. _Cento_, "a patchwork coverlet." Juv., vi., 121. Vid. Fest in voc. "prohibere." The phrase _centones sarcire_ also means, "to impose upon a person by falsehoods." Cf. Plaut., Epid., III., iv., 19, "Quin tu alium quæras quoi centones sarcias." [1907] The emendations of this Fragment are endless. The reading of the text is approved by Merula and Gerlach. [1908] _Statura._ Cf. Cic., Phil., ii., 16, "Velim mihi docas, L, Turselius, qua _facie_ fuit, quâ _staturâ_." [1909] _Fulmenta_, "any prop or support." Hence "a bed-post." Whence the proverb, "Fulmenta lectum scandunt." Plautus also uses it for the "heel of a shoe," "fulmentas jubeam suppingi soccis?" Trin., III., ii., 94, _seq_. Lib. iv., Fr. 19. [1910] _Lutum_ for "lutulentum." [1911] Gerlach thinks _Hymnis_, here and in lib. xxvii., Fr. 43, may be a proper name. [1912] _Hic corpus._ "Verba conciliatricis Lenæ." Dusa. (Cf. Arist., Acharn., 1199). [1913] Given up even by Gerlach. [1914] _Destinet._ Cf. Plaut., Rud., Prol., 45, "Amare occœpit, ad lenonem devenit minis triginta sibi puellam destinat." Pers., IV., iii., 80. Mart., III., i., 109; IV., iii., 35. _Destinare_ is properly "to set one's mind upon a thing." So _obstinare_. Plaut., Aul., II., ii., 89. BOOK XXIX. ARGUMENT. The remains of this book are so mutilated and so diversified, that, as Gerlach says, "one might be disposed to imagine that the very essence of the subject was its unconnected variety." Both he and Merula, however, consider that it contained a long episode on the state of morality in the good old days; when the war with Hannibal rendered a luxurious indulgence incompatible even with personal safety. (Cf. Juv., vi., 291. Sulpic., 51, 52.) An old man is introduced inveighing bitterly against the sloth, the luxury, and immoderate extravagance of the young men of his day; of their unscrupulousness as to the means by which the money was acquired, which was squandered on their licentious pleasures. He then describes one of these scenes of dissipation; and shows how young men, once entangled in the snares of their worthless paramours not only become lost to every principle of virtue and sense of shame, but are so completely enslaved and enthralled by their passions, that they are able to refuse nothing, however unworthy of them, which is exacted by their tyrannical mistresses. This corruption extends itself, also, not only to the courts of law, where justice has become a matter of barter, both with advocates and judges, but its fatal effects may also be traced in the debasement and deterioration of literature, of poetry, and of the public taste. 1 When he has done this, the culprit will be handed over along with others to Lupus: he will not appear. He will deprive the man of both primary matter and elements: when he has prohibited him from the use of water and fire, he has still two elements: he would have preferred ... still he will deprive him--[1915] 2 ... and rest assured in your mind, that it will be a very weighty reason indeed with me, which would draw me away from any thing that would serve you. 3 ... who communicates to me what the difference is between the race of mankind and brutes, and what it is connects them together. 4 Apollo is the deity who will not suffer you to bring disgrace and |