fr. 1. Hor. c. Iv 13. Menand. in Stob. 1. c. 9 nothing can be more pitiable than a grey-haired lover, unless it be repos yépwv épŵv. Eurip. ibid. 38. 204 NAM Cic. Brut. § 48. Quintil. x 1 §§ 12. 50 after saying that comparisons, digressions etc. are so numerous in Homer, that writers on rhetoric borrow examples from his poems nam epilogus quidem quis unquam poterit illis Priami rogantis Achillem precibus aequari? When something has been affirmed of several particulars, one of which the same thing holds true still more evidently, often follows with nam; as here, as for the epilogue, I need not speak of that,the same may be said of that as a matter of course,-for-.' ib. § 83. XI 3 §§ 21 Spald. 27. Hertzberg on Prop. Iv=ш 11 27. Hand Tursell. IV 17. 204-5 SI CONERIS, IACET on the constr. see 339 n. 205 RAMICE VI 326 Nestoris hirnea. From Lucil. Ix ap. Non. ramices p. 166 quod deformi' senex, arthriticus ac podagrosus | est, quod mancu' miserque exilis ramice magno. Varr. ibid. rapta a nescio quo mulione raptori ramices rupit. ramex is a diminutive form (Roby § 777) from ramus, and denotes (1) brushwood for wattling a fence; (2) the branching air-vessels of the lungs (rumpere ramices in Plaut. etc.); (3) Celsus vII 18. 22. 24. Paulus Aegin. vi 63. 64. 66 with the commentary of Adams: κιρσοκήλη οι βουβωνοκήλη, varicose enlargement of veins of the scrotum, testiculi or inguen. cf. ind. Plin., who names several specifics: perhaps all the exx. cited for meaning (2) may be referred to (3). = NERVUS Schol. penis. add to lexx. Ix 34. Apul. m. I 16 Hild. Tert. apol. 8. Arnob. v 18. Aug. de gen. ad litt. xII § 37 (very singular phenomena, resembling those of mesmerism). Much information respecting the sexual disorders of Greeks and Romans is contained in the work of a physician Jul. Rosenbaum Geschichte der Lustseuche im Alterthume, Leipz. 1845; e. g. p. 417 nervus. Casaub. on Ath. I p. 5d veûpov. Mart. XI 22. 29. 206 VI 238. 325-6. 208 SUSPECTA 238. the obscene arts, known as irrumatio and fellatio (Rosenbaum 219-250) were condemned by public opinion; the graffiti of Pompeii shew that no imputation was more common; we may question therefore the truth of much of the scandal against Tiberius in Suet. 44. 209 Mart. 1 94. III 75. 87. IV 50. VI 26. XI 25. 46. SINE VIRIBUS Verg. g. III 99. XII 97. ASPICE 193 n. PARTIS the ear. VIII 198, 220, 225. 230. 211 CITHAROEDO SELEUCUS a ET QUIBUS i. e. et quibus aliis 178 n. 'and other QUIBUS AURATA MOS EST FULGERE players on harp and flute.' LACERNA Suet. Ner. 25. ad Heren. Iv § 60' as a harper, when he has come before the public in rich attire, palla inaurata indutus, cum chlamyde purpurea, coloribus variis intexta, et cum corona aurea, magnis fulgentibus gemmis illuminata, citharam tenens exornatissimam, auro et ebore distinctam, if his own person and stature are of a piece with his attire, and then, when public expectation is aroused, and there is a dead silence, he utters a harsh note accompanied with ungainly gestures, the scorn with which he is hissed off the stage is the greater in proportion to the great hopes which he had awakened.' cf. the tibicen Princeps in Phaedr. v 7 all in white down to his shoes; ib. 33-35 the separate seats for equites [Iuv. ver. 213]. cf. Arion's costume Hdt. 1 24 §§ 4-5. Lucian adv. indoct. 8-10 a Tarentine Euangelos, who aspired to the Pythian crown, sang to a golden and jewelled lyre, in a robe embroidered with gold, and was flogged out of the theatre for his incapacity; and the prize was assigned to the Elian Eumelos, whose only ornament was his skill, Hor. a. p. 214-5 luxuriem addidit arti | tibicen traxitque vagus per pulpita vestem. cf. Marquardt v2 183. These artists were highly paid Iuv. VI 380. vu 176 n. cf. the foppish attire of pleaders vir 124-140; of authors reciting their works Pers. 1 15-18 Jahn. In 148 n. LACERNA 213 MAGNI THEATRI the numbers of seats in the three theatres of Pompeius, Balbus, and Marcellus, are variously given, the highest number is 40,000 in the theatre of Pompeius (Plin.), the lowest 11,510 in that of Balbus, (curiosum, but the notit. gives 30,085) Friedländer 12 297. QUA PARTE Whether in the orchestra (III 178) as a senator, or in the 14 rows behind the orchestra as an eques ib. 154. Hor. ep. II 1 185. 187. s. I 10 76. Cic. Cat. mai. § 48 ut Turpione Ambivio magis delectatur qui in prima cavea spectat, delectatur tamen etiam qui in ultima, sic adulescentia voluptates propter intuens magis fortasse laetatur, sed delectatur etiam senectus procul eas spectans tantum quantum sat est. ib. § 50 after speaking of the intellectual pleasures of age quae sunt igitur epularum aut ludorum aut scortorum voluptates cum his voluptatibus comparandae? Sen. de ben. vII 12 §§ 3-4 equestria omnium equitum Romanorum sunt, in illis tamen locus meus fit proprius, quem occupavi, etc. 214 CORNICINES ATQUE TUBARUM CONCENTUS III 34. Hor. s.16 43-4 magna sonabit, | cornua quod vincatque tubas at a funeral. Trumpeters were employed in the concerts Sen. ep. 84 § 10 in commissionibus nostris plus cantorum est quam in theatris olim spectatorum fuit. cum omnes vias ordo canentium inplevit et cavea aeneatoribus cincta est et ex pulpito omne tibiarum genus organorumque consonuit, fit concentus ex dissonis. EXAUDIET Lucr. III 467-8 of one in lethargy unde neque exaudit voces nec noscere vultus | illorum potis est. 216 QUEM DICAT VENISSE PUER it was the office of the cubicularius to announce callers Marquardt v 1 149. Cic. ad Att. vI 2 § 5. See the famous story id. de or. II § 276 Nasica called on Ennius; the maid replied that he was not at home.' Nasica detected the conventional fib. A few days after Ennius called on Nasica, cum ad Nasicam venisset Ennius et eum a ianua quaereret; Nasica cried out se domi non esse. Tum Ennius, 'quid, ego non cognosco,' inquit, ' vocem tuam?' Hic Nasica homo es impudens. ego cum te quaererem, ancillae tuae credidi te domi non esse, tu mihi non credis ipsi?' Macr. 1 7 § 1 unus e famulitio, cui provincia erat admittere volentes dominum convenire, Evangelum adesse nuntiat. QUOT NUNTIET HORAS Sundials and waterclocks were found in private houses (Cic. ad fam. XVI 18 § 3. dig. xxxIII 7 12 § 23), but more commonly slaves watched the public dials on temples or basilicae, and reported the time to their masters, much as the watchmen of the last generation cried the hours. Plaut. in Gell. III 3 § 5. Cic. Brut. § 200 a judge yawning, chatting, mittentem ad horas. Plin. vII § 182 Cn. Bebius Pamphilus died cum a puero quaesisset horas. cf. ib. §§ 212-5 on clocks of various kinds. Sen. de brev. vit. 12 § 6 quos quando lavari debeant, quando natare, quando cenare, alius admonet, et usque eo nimio delicati animi languore solvuntur, ut per se scire non possint, an esuriant. id. de morte Claud. 2 § 3 horam non possum certam tibi dicere: facilius inter philosophos quam inter horologia conveniet: tamen inter sextam et septimam erat. Mart. VIII 67 1 horas quinque puer nondum tibi nuntiat. word sent to a guest that the dinner hour is come Ter. haut. 169-171. Sidon. ep. 11 9 nuntium per spatia clepsydrae horarum incrementa servantem. Suet. Dom. 16 just before the murder of Domitian horas requirenti pro quinta, quam metuebat, sexta ex industria nuntiata est. Petron. 26 Trimalchio has horologium in triclinio, et bucinatorem habet subornatum, ut subinde sciat, quantum de vita perdiderit. A letter from Theodoric to Boethius, requesting him to construct a sundial and water-clock for the king of the Burgundians Cassiod. ep. 1 45. Vitruvius IX 9 ingenious clocks for measuring the variable hours. The gods also must be informed of the time of day Sen. fr. 36 in Aug. civ. D. vI 10 alius horas Iori nuntiat. Mart. x 48 1 to Isis. Apul. x1 20. Becker Gallus 113 351-62. Marquardt v 1 262. 2 370-381. Boscovich in giorn. di Roma 1746. Sallier in mém. de l'acad. des inscr. IV 148. F. Woepke disquis. archaeol. math. circa solaria veterum, Berol. 1842. Pitiscus s. v. clepsydra. 217 GELIDO Aen. v 395-6. 218 FEBRE CALET SOLA Stanley cites Mart. III 93 on a hag, toothless, wrinkled, croaking, blind, fetid, a very carcase 16-7 cum bruma mensem sit tibi per Augustum regelare nec te pestilenties possit. FACTO III 162. Verg. g. Iv 167 of bees. Aen. 1 82 of winds. VIII 595. 219 MORBORUM OMNE GENUS Ter. Phorm. 575 senectus ipsast morbus. Sen. ep. 108 § 28 the grammarian remarks that Verg. always couples diseases and age; and with good reason too; senectus enim insanabilis morbus est. 219-20 SI QUAERAS, AGMINE EXPEDIAM on the constr. (exp. fut. ind.) see 340 n. Ov. m. xv 293-4 si quaeras, . . . invenies. 220-6 a parody of passages like Ov. tr. Iv 1 55-60. Pont. 11 7 25— 30. cf. Ariosto XIV 99 (Düntzer), in which the greatness of a number is expressed by comparison: sooner can you count the thyme of Hybla, the ears of African corn, the birds of the air, the fishes of the sea, the fruits of autumn, the flakes of winter snow. Cf. Jani art. poet. 499-500. Boileau Iv 31-4 imitates these verses. 220 PROMPTIUS an adv. of common use in the silver age; first used apparently by Hirt. and VM. cf. 225. xv 19. XVI 32 citius. EXPEDIAM unfold, draw out at length, detail. 26-8. AMAVERIT commonly used of illicit intrigue 11 168. VI 548. Hor. s 1 2 55 Heind. amator. Sen fr. 84-5 in Hieron, adv. Iovinian. 1 30 Sextius in sententiis 'adulter est,' inquit, 'in suam uxorem amator ardentior.'. . . nihil est foedius quam uxorem amare quasi adulteram .... QUOT AMAVERIT OPPIA MOECHOS XIV OPPIA 322. M. nec amatores uxoribus se exhibeant sed maritos. Ter. Andr. 191 omnes, qui amant, graviter sibi dari uxorem ferunt. Hor. s. 11 3 250. Sen. contr. 14 § 4 PAPIRIUS FABIANUS non est luxuria tua qualem videri velis. non simulas enim ista, sed facis, nec amantem agis, sed amas, nec potantem adumbras, sed bibis. 221 THEMISON Schol. archiater illius temporis, cui detrahit. Dr Greenhill (dict. biogr.) follows the scholiast in distinguishing our Themison from the Laodicean physician a contemporary of Pompeius, founder of the sect of the Methodici, said to have been the first to employ leeches: Sen. ep. 95 § 9 alia est Hippocratis secta, alia Asclepiadis, alia Themisonis. Plin. xxix § 6 etc. He is often cited as an authority, esp. by Cael. Aurel. It was usual for artists of every kind to assume the name of former eminent professors Friedländer 112 459-64 Pylades, Bathyllus, Paris, Memphis; of physicians Asclepiades, Antigenes, Alcon. So Apul. mag. 33 Themison servus noster, medicinae non ignarus. AUCTUMNO IV 56 n. Burn Rome and the Campagna 22-7. OCCIDERIT Stob. fl. cI1 6a the pleader and physician alone are chartered to kill without being killed for their pains, ἀποκτείνειν μέν, ἀποθνήσκειν de un. A standing jest in every age Mart. 1 30. 47. VI 53 Andragoras, in rude health at supper, found dead in the morning, having seen in a dream the physician Hermocrates. VIII 74. Auson. epigr. 73-5. Artemidor. 1 51. anth. Pal. xr 112-126. 131 4. Molière le malade imaginaire, at the end; the candidate of medicine has three remedies, clysters, bleeding and purging, for all disorders; and swears to use none but those of the faculty, maladus dût-il crevare et mori de suo malo. He is then granted licence to bleed cut and kill all the world over. The doctors wish their new brother a thousand years of life; manget et bibat, et seignet et tuat! 222 BASILUS one of the name, a pleader, in vII 145—7. Here a fraudulent socius i. e. member of a partnership or trading company, societas, such as existed in Rome for buying and selling slaves or produce, building, banking, education (Dig. XVII 2 71), farming the revenues etc. Because of the sacredness of the relation, a partner convicted of dolus (in an actio pro socio) incurred infamia Rein in Pauly vi 1232-3. Iv 151 B 3. Privatr.2 164. 721-3. Cic. p. Quinct. §§ 11-26. 52. 74.76. 90. § 16 the tie of partnership is a brotherly tie, fraterna necessitudo. § 26 the breach of it is impious. p. Rosc. com. § 16 if there are three private actions which touch reputation and almost life itself, they are fiduciae, tutelae, societatis. aeque enim perfidiosum et nefarium est, pupillum fraudare, qui in tutelam pervenit, et socium fallere, qui se in negotio coniunxit. §§ 17. 22. 24-6. p. Caec. §§ 7. 8. ep. fam. Ix 25 § 3. d. n. III § 74 iudicia... pro socio. p. Flacc. § 43 et furti et pro socio damnatus. instit. Iv 16 § 2. dig. III 2 1. A guardian who had poisoned his ward, to whom he was heir, crucified by Galba Suet. 9. 222-3 CIRCUMSCRIPSERIT HIRRUS PUPILLOS XIV 237. xv 135-6 n. pupillum ad iura vocantem | circumscriptorem. Cic. off. III § 61 circumscriptio adulescentium lege Plaetoria (erat vindicata). Sen. de ben. Iv 27 § 5 dementissime testabitur, qui tutorem filio reliquerit pupillorum spoliatorem. 223 EXORBEAT cf. vI 126 consumes, 224 MAURA who hisses DISCIPULOS on the danger used like voro, of greedy passion. the altar of Chastity in v1 307-8. to the modesty of youth in schools see vII 239 n. Pliny ep. Iv 13 § 4 hearing that the boys of his native town, Comum, went to school at Mediolanum, urged the fathers to set up a school in their own town (ubi enim aut iucundius morarentur, quam in patria, aut pudicius continerentur, quam sub oculis parentum ?). He offered to contribute of the expense, and asks Tacitus to recommend a master. Eunus, the lecherous Syrian, branded by Auson. epigr. 123-4. 126-8, was a schoolmaster. anth. Pal. XII 222 a master of gymnastics is charged with the same breach of trust as Hamillus here. III 112 n. IX 26. Mart. x1 43 5. INCLINET HAMILLUS the Amillus of Mart. vII 62 is in character like this, but not in condition, being the son of a man of wealth, living with his father. Quo 171 n. 225 CITIUS 226 the IUVENI same verse 1 25. cf. XIV 315 n. MIHI BARBA CADEBAT VI 105. One Cinnamus, a barber emancipated by his mistress and become an eques, exchanged his name for the more dignified Cinna Mart. vI 17. VII 64. 227 HIC HIC I 46 n. Obbar n. cr. on Hor. ep. 1 6 53. COXA DEBILIS Sen. ep. 101 § 11 severely censures the prayer of Maecenas debilem facito manu, | debilem pede, coxa, tuber adstrue gibberum, | lubricos quate dentes: | vita dum superest, bene est. | hanc mihi, vel acuta si sedeam cruce, sustine. 227-8. AMBOS PERDIDIT ILLE OCULOS ET LUSCIS INVIDET 158 n. Grang. Galli dicunt 'Au royaume des aveugles les borgnes sont rois.' Wander deutsches Sprichwörter-lexikon 1 779 'Es ist besser einäugig, dann gar blind' (also dan. fr. port. sp.). 'Ein Einäugiger ist dem Lande der Blinden eine Schönheit.' Ein Einäugiger kann leicht einen Blinden übersehen.' 229 CIBUM ACCIPIUNT DIGITIS ALIENIS Plin. ep. 1 16 § 8 servulos aliquos, quorum e manu cibum capiat. He has cheragra gout in the hand. 230 AD XIII 223 n. DIDUCERE RICTUM Hor. s. 1 10 7 risu diducere rictum. ringo is allied to rima, rixor, and germ. Rachen Corssen Aussprache 12 639. 231 PULLUS whence pullet,' allied to foal, filly, λos. 231-2 PULLUS HIRUNDINIS AD QUEM ORE VOLAT PLENO MATER IEIUNA Hom. Il. IX 3234 ὡς δ ̓ ὄρνις ἀπτῆσι νεοσσοῖσι προφέρῃσιν | μάστακ ̓ ἐπεί κε λάβῃσι, κακῶς δ ̓ ἄρα οἱ πέλει αὐτῇ. Εust. ib. cites Achaeus χάσκοντα λιμῷ μόσχον ὡς χελιδόνος. Lucian Timon 21 Plutos says of those who hope to be enriched 'they await me gaping wσTEρ Tην χελιδόνα προσπετομένην τετριγότες οἱ νεοττοί.” Plut. de audiendo 48» applies the simile to idle pupils, who expect as it were to be fed with a spoon, to have every difficulty smoothed. cf. id. 80a Wytt. 494d. 233 DEMENTIA see the answer to this reproach in Cic. Cat. mai. §§ 21-6. 36-8. 49. 50. 67. [Plat.] Axioch. 367b after saying that Nature impawns old men’s sight and hearing, tự vệ ôis rates of gépovres. M. Sen. contr. 12 14 and [Quintil.] decl. 346. 367 fathers accused of dementia by their sons. Quintil. has dementiae causa, d. actiones, d. iudicia, agit cum mentiae Bonnell lex. Quintil. VII 4 § 10. 234 NOMINA SERVORUM Stanley cites Plin. VII § 90 nothing in man so frail or so capricious as memory: one man after a blow with a stone forgot the letters only; another after a fall from a lofty wall matris et adfinium propinquorumque cepit oblivionem, alius aegrotus servorum etiam, Messala Corvinus the orator could not recollect his own name. Add the mark of dementia [Quintil.] decl. 368 non reddita salutantibus nomina, non discretos ab inimicis amicos. 236 EDUXIT used in the sense of the cognate form educare (cf. dicere, dicare) in Plaut. Ter. Cic. Verg. Prop. Liv. Tac. etc. Mühlmann has 36 exx. 236-7 CODICE eo de SAEVO HEREDES VETAT ESSE SUOS the testator, who had sui heredes (i.e. children, begotten or adopted, in potestate; a wife in manu; a daughterin-law in manu filii, when the son is in potestate; postumi who would be in manu, if born during the testator's life; grandchildren after the father's death Gaius II 156-7. Ulp. xxII 14-5) must either make them his heirs, or disinherit them expressly (if a son or postumus, by name); if the son or postumus was not mentioned (was praeteritus), the will was wholly void; if daughters and grandchildren were passed over, they were entitled to share with the heirs named in the will. Sui heredes (and also parents and brothers and sisters), disinherited or passed over, might bring a querella inofficiosi (i.e. testamenti), to shew that the testator acted without sufficient cause, in error or in blind passion dig. XXVIII 3 § 1. inst. II 18. Rein Privatrecht2 817. 823-7. Such an unnatural will is called impium, inhumanum, furiosum, tabulae plenae furoris, t. iniquae ib. 824. Here the testator either expressly disinherits, or passes over, his children (for heredes vetat esse suos may have either signification). Codicillus (our codicil') is frequent in the sense of a less formal will Dirksen manuale; from it is derived coucher,' a register. 237-8 BONA ་ TOTA FERUNTUR AD PHIALEN like rewards for like services 1 37–42. 55-7. As a persona turpis Phiale was not intitled to inherit (Rein 130. 142. 825 n); but yet, if she were in possession, and the true heirs had no advocate to assert their rights, she might oust them in defiance of the law. 238 PHIALEN fellatricem, the name of a nymph in |