Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History BookNigrâ._ "And liveries of black for length of years." Dryden. [646] _Pylius._ Hom., Il., i., 250, μετὰ δὲ τριτάτοισιν ἄνασσεν. So Odyss., iii., 245, τρὶς γὰρ δή μίν φασιν ἀνάξασθαι γένε' ἀνδρῶν. [647] _Cornice._ "Next to the raven's age, the Pylian king Was longest-lived of any two-legged thing." Dryden. [648] _Dextra._ This the Greeks express by ἀναπεμπάζεσθαι. They counted on the left hand as far as a hundred, then on the right up to two hundred, and then again on the left for the third hundred. Holyday has a most elaborate explanation of the method. [649] _Antilochi._ Cf. Hor., II., Od. ix., 14. [650] _Natantem._ Cf. Hom., Od., v., 388, 399. "So Peleus sigh'd to join his hero lost-- Laertes his on boundless billows toss'd." Hodgson. [651] _Polyxena_, from Eurip., Hec., 556, λαβοῦσα πέπλους ἐξ ἄκρας ἐπωμίδος ἔῤῥηξε. [652] _Miles tremulus._ Virg., Æn., ii., 509, "Arma diu senior desueta trementibus ævo circumdat," etc. "A soldier half, and half a sacrifice." Dryden. [653] _Bos._ Virg., Æn., v., 481, "Sternitur, exanimisque tremens procumbit humi bos." [654] _Fastiditus._ "Disdain'd its labors, and forgotten now All its old service at the thankless plow." Hodgson. [655] _Canino._ See the close of Eurip., Hecuba. The Greeks fabled that Hecuba was metamorphosed into a bitch, from her constant railing at them. Hence κυνὸς σῆμα. Cf. Plaut., Menœchm., v. i. [656] _Crœsus._ Cf. Herod., i., 32. [657] _Spatia_, a metaphor from the "course." So Virgil has metæ ævi, metæ mortis. [658] _Minturnarum_, a town of the Aurunci near the mouth of the Liris, now Garigliano. In the marshes in the neighborhood Marius concealed himself from the cavalry of Sylla. [659] _Animam._ "Had he exhaled amid the pomp of war, A warrior's soul in that Teutonic car." Badham. [660] _Teutonico_, i. e., after his triumph over the Cimbri and Teutones. Cf. viii., 251. [661] _Campania._ Cf. Cic., Tus. Qu., i., 35, "Pompeius noster familiaris, cum graviter ægrotaret Neapoli, utrum si tum esset extinctus, à bonis rebus, an à malis discessisset? certè a miseriis, si mortem tum obiisset, in amplissimis fortunis occidisset." Achillas and L. Septimius murdered Pompey and cut off his head; which ἐφύλασσον Καίσαρι, ὡς ἐπὶ μεγίσταις ἀμοιβαῖς. Appian, B.C., ii., 86 [662] _P. Corn. Lentulus Sura_, was strangled in prison with Cethegus. Catiline fell in battle, near Pistoria in Etruria. [663] _Murmure._ Venus was worshiped under the name of ἀφροδίτη Ψίθυρος, because all prayers were to be offered in whispers. [664] _Delicias._ This is Heinrich's view. Grangæus explains it, "Ut pro ipsis vota deliciarum plena concipiat." Britannicus, "quasi diceret, optat ut tam formosa sit, ut eam juvenes in suos amplexus optent." [665] _Latona._ Hom., Od. vi., 106, γέγηθε δέ τε φρένα Λήτω. Virg., Æn., i., 502, Latonæ tacitum pertentant gaudia pectus. [666] _Lucretia._ "Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring, And Sedley cursed the form that pleased a king!" Johnson. [667] _Concordia._ Ov., Heroid, xvi., 288, "Lis est cum _forma_ magna _pudicitiæ_." "Chaste--is no epithet to suit with fair." Dryden. [668] _Tradiderit._ "Though through the rugged house, from sire to son, A Sabine sanctity of manners run." Gifford. [669] _Pœnas metuet._ The punishment of adulterers seems to have been left to the discretion of the injured husband rather than to have been defined by law. [670] _Laqueos._ Ov., Met., iv., 176, "Extemplo graciles ex ære catenas, Retiaque et laqueos quæ lumina fallere possint, elimat." Art. Am., ii., 561, _seq._ Hom., Odyss., viii., 266. [671] _Servilia_; i. e., some one as rich and debauched as Servilia, sister of Cato and mother of Brutus, with whom Cæsar intrigued, and lavished immense wealth on her. Vid. Suet, Jul., 50. Her sister, the wife of Lucullus, was equally depraved. [672] _Mores._ "In all things else, immoral, stingy, mean, But in her lusts a conscionable quean." Dryden. [673] _Hæc_, sc. Phædra, daughter of Minos, king of Crete. [674] _Stimulos._ "A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate." Gifford. [675] _Cæsaris uxor._ The story is told in Tacitus, Ann., xi., 12, seq. "In Silium, juventutis Romanæ _pulcherrimum_ ita exarserat, ut Juniam Silanam nobilem fœminam, matrimonio ejus exturbaret vacuoque adultero potiretur. Neque Silius _flagitii_ aut _periculi_ nescius erat: _sed certo si abnueret exitio_ et nonnullâ fallendi spe, simul magnis præmiis, opperiri futura, et præsentibus frui, pro solatio habebat." This happened A.D. 48, in the autumn, while Claudius was at Ostia. It was with great difficulty, after all, that Narcissus prevailed on Claudius to order Messalina's execution, cf. xiv., 331; Tac., Ann., xi., 37; and she was put to death at last without his knowledge. [676] _Auspex._ Suet., Claud. "Cum comperisset «Valeriam Messalinam» super cætera flagitia atque dedecora, C. Silio etiam nupsisse, _dote inter auspices consignatâ_, supplicio affecit." C. 26; cf. 36, 39. [677] _Lucernas._ "Before the evening lamps 'tis thine to die." Badham. [678] _Nota urbi et populo._ Juvenal uses almost the very words of Tacitus. "An discidium inquit (Narcissus) tuum nôsti? Nam matrimonium Silii vidit populus et senatus et miles: ac ni properè agis tenet urbem maritus." Ann., xi., 30. [679] _Prœbenda._ Cf. Tac., Ann., xi., 38. "Inevitable death before thee lies, But looks more kindly through a lady's eyes!" Dryden. [680] _Tomacula_, "the liver and other parts cut out of the pig minced up with the fat." Mart., i., Ep. xlii., 9, "Quod fumantia qui tomacla raucus circumfert tepidus coquus popinis." The other savory ingredients are given by Facciolati; the Greeks called them τεμάχη or τεμάχια. [681] _Munera._ "A soul that can securely death defy, And count it Nature's privilege to die." Dryden. [682] _Hercules._ Alluding to the well-known "Choice of Hercules" from Prodicus. Xen., Mem. [683] _Nullum numen._ Repeated, xiv., 315. [684] "The reasonings in this Satire," Gibbon says, "would have been clearer, had Juvenal distinguished between wishes the accomplishment of which could not fail to make us miserable, and those whose accomplishment might fail to make us happy. Absolute power is of the first kind; long life of the second." SATIRE XI. If Atticus[685] sups extravagantly, he is considered a splendid[686] fellow: if Rutilus does so, he is thought mad. For what is received with louder laughter on the part of the mob, than Apicius[687] reduced to poverty? Every club,[688] the baths, every knot of loungers, every theatre,[689] is full of Rutilus. For while his sturdy and youthful limbs are fit to bear arms,[690] and while he is hot in blood, he is dri |