Let us be together," fays he.-It is the fum of your wishes-what more Do you feek? Trebius has that, for which he ought to break His fleep, and leave loose his fhoe-ties; folicitous left 20 Arctophylax-from Agulos, a bear, and quλag, a keeper. We call the Urfa Major-Charles's wain (fee AINSW. Arctos) feven ftars being fo difpofed, that the first two represent the oxen, the other five reprefent a wain, or waggon, which they draw. Boötes feems to follow as the driver. 22-23. The cold wains.] Sarraca, plur.-the wain confifting of many stars.-Frigida, cold-because of their proximity to the North pole, which, from thence, is called Arcticus polus. See AINSW. 23. Slow Bootes.] Sive eft Arctophylax, five eft piger ille Boötes. OVID. MARTIAL. Plauftra vehunt. The epithet piger, fo often applied to Boötes, may relate to the flowness of his motion round the North pole, his circuit being very fmall; or in reference to the flownefs with which the neatherd drives his ox-wain. Virg. Ecl. x. 1. 19. Tardi venêre bubulci. See Ovid. Met. Lib. i. Fab. i. 1. 176-7. Turn themselves round.] Not that they ever ftand ftill, but they, and therefore their motion, can only be perceived in the night-time. This conftellation appearing always above the horizon, is said by the poets never to defcend into the fea. Juvenal means, that Trebius would be forced out of his bed at break of day-ftellis dubiis-fee note on 1. 22.-Or, perhaps, at that time, when Boötes, with his wain, would be to light him-i. e. while it was yet night. "When Charles's wain is feen to roll DUNSTER. 24. What fort, c.] After all the pains which you may have taken to attend this great man's levee, in order to ingratiate yourself with him, and after the great honour which you think is 0 2 done Lana pati: de convivâ Corybanta videbis. Calcatamque tenet bellis focialibus uvam, 25 30 Delevit multâ veteris fuligine teftæ : Quale coronati Thrafea, Helvidiufque bibebant, 35 done you by his invitation to fupper-pray how are you treated? what kind of entertainment does he give you? 24. Wine, &c.] Wine that is fo poor, that it is not fit to foak wool, in order to prepare it for receiving the dye, or good enough to fcour the greafe out of new-fhorne wool. See AINSW. Succidus. 25. A Corybant.] The Corybantes were priests of Cybele, and who danced about in a wild and frantic manner. So this wine was fo heady, and had fuch an effect on the guests who drank it, as to make them frantic, and turn them, as it were, into priests of Cybele, whose mad and strange gestures they imitated. 26. They begin brawls.] Or brawls begin.-Proludo (from pro and ludo) is to flourish, as fencers do, before they begin to play in good earnest-to begin, to commence. Brawls, or ftrifes of words, are begun by way of preludes to blows. 27. With a red napkin.] Stained with the blood of the combatants. See Hor. Lib. i. Od. xxvii. 28. Troop of freedmen.] The liberti were thofe, who, of flaves, or bondmen, were made free: the great people had numbers of these about them, and they were very infolent and quarrelfome on these occafions. 29. Saguntine pot 2] Saguntum was a city of Spain, famous for its earthen-ware. This city was famous for holding out against Hannibal; rather than fubmit, they burnt themfelves, their wives, and children. Pugnam committere, is a military term for engaging in fight. 30. He.] Ipfe-the patron himself. What was racked.] Diffufum-poured, racked, or filled out, from the wine-vat into the cask. Wou'd not endure: from a gueft you will fee a Corybant. 25 30 And poffeffes the grape trodden in the focial wars, Or from the Setine, whofe country, and title, old-age Has blotted out, by the thick mouldiness of the old cafk. 35 Such Thrafeas and Helvidius drank, crowned, 30. When the conful, &c.] Capillato confule-In old time, when the confuls wore long hair. AINSW. See Sat. iv. 103. 31. Social wars.] The civil war, or the war of the allies, fometimes called the Marfian war (of which, see Ant. Univ. Hift. vol. xiii. p. 34.) which broke out ninety years before Christ. So that this wine must have been very old when this Satire was written. 32. Cholicky.] Cardiaco-(a nagdia, cor)-fick at heartalfo one that is griped, or had a violent pain in the ftomach. Good old wine is recommended by Celfus, as highly useful in fuch a complaint. Pliny fays, Lib. xxiii. c. 1. Cardiacorum morbo unicam fpem in vino effe certum eft. But so selfish is this great man fuppofed to be, that he would not spare fo much as a fingle cup of it to fave one's life. 33. From the Alban mountains.] The Alban hills bore a plea. fant grape, and the vines have not yet degenerated, for the vino Albano is ftill in great esteem. 34. The Setine.] Setia, the city which gave name to these hills, lies not far from Terracina, in Campania. 35. Thick mouldinefs.] Multâ-lit. much. See AINSW. Multus, N° 2. Casks which are long kept in cellars contract a mouldiness, which so overspreads the outfide, as to conceal every mark and character which may have been impreffed on them-as where the wine grew, and the name (titulum) by which it is diftinguished. 36. Thrafeas-Hel-vidius.] Thrafeas was fon-in-law to Helvídius. They were both great patriots, and oppofers of Nero's 0 3 tyranny. Brutorum & Cafsi natalibus. Ipfe capaces Virro tenet phialas: tibi non committitur aurum ; 40 Qui numeret gemmas, unguefque obfervet acutos : Nam Virro (ut multi) gemmas ad pocula transfert 45 Ponere zelotypo juvenis prælatus Hiarbæ. tyranny. Thrafeas bled to death by the command of NeroHelvidius was banished. 36. Crowned.] The Romans in their caroufals, on festivaldays, wore crowns or garlands of flowers upon their heads. See Hor. Lib. ii. Od. vii. 1. 7—8, and 1. 23—5. 37. Of the Bruti, &c.] In commemoration of Junius, and of Decius Brutus: the former of which expelled Tarquin the Proud; the latter delivered his country from the power of Julius Cæfar, by affaffinating him in the fenate-houfe. Caffius was alfo one of the confpirators and affaffins of Cæfar. These men acted from a love of liberty, and therefore were remembered, especially in after-times of tyranny and oppreffion, with the highest honour. The beft of wine was brought forth on the occafion. name. Virro.] The mafter of the feaft-perhaps a fictitious 38. Pieces of the Heliades.] Drinking cups made of large pieces of amber. The Heliades (from Hos, the fun) were the daughters of Phoebus and Clymene, who, bewailing their brother Phaeton, were turned into poplar-trees: of whofe tears came amber, which diftilled continually from their branches. See Ovid. Met. Lib. i. Fab. ii. and iii. Inde fluunt lachrymæ: ftillataque fole rigefcunt drinks. FAB. iii. Holds.] Tenet-holds them in his hands when he Cups.] Phiala-means a gold cup, or beaker, to drink out of. Sometimes drinking cups, or veffels, made of glass. See AINSW. Beryl.] A fort of precious ftone, cut into pieces, which were inlaid in drinking cups, here faid to be inæquales, from the On the birth-day of the Bruti and Caffius. Virro himself Holds capacious pieces of the Heliades, and cups with beryl Unequal to you gold is not committed. 40 Or if at any time it be given, a guard is fixed there, 45 the inequality or roughness of the outward furface, owing to the protuberances of the pieces of beryl with which it was inlaid. 39. Gold is not committed.] You are looked upon in too defpicable a light, to be intrusted with any thing made of gold. But if this fhould happen, you will be narrowly watched, as if you were fufpected to be capable of stealing it. 41. Who may count, &c.] To fee that none are miffing. Sharp nails.] Left you fhould make ufe of them to pick out the precious ftones with which the gold cup may be inlaid. 42. A bright jasper, &c.] Præclara, very bright or clearis commended by all that fee it, for its tranfparency and beauty, as well as for its fize, therefore you must not take it ill that Virro is fo watchful over it. The jafper is a precious ftone of a green colour; when large it was very valuable. 43. Virro (as many, &c.] The poet here cenfures the vanity and folly of the nobles, who took the gems out of their rings to ornament their drinking-cups-this, by the ut multi, feems to have been growing into a fashion. 44. Such, as in the front, &c.] Alluding to Virg. Æn. iv. 1. 261-2. Virro had fet in his cups fuch precious ftones, as Æneas, whom Dido preferred as a fuitor to Hiarbas, king of Getulia, had his fword decked with; among the reft, that fort of jafper, which, though not yellow throughout, was fprinkled with drops of gold, which sparkled like ftars, fomething like the appearance of the fpots in the lapis lazuli. By the frons vagine, we may under and the hilt of the fword, and upper part of the fcabbard; for Virgil fays enfis, and Juvenal, vagina. 0 4 47. The |