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scholiast interprets it, negotiare, et speciem pro specie commuta. Eheu, whew!

138 sq. Baro (varo) you lout (Conington), “Querkopf,” “Tölpel.” -Regustatum... perages, " you will go on to the end of the chapter satisfied with drilling a hole with your thumb in the salt cellar that you've had so many a taste out of." Rubbing the salt-cellar into holes to get the last grain of salt expresses, as says Macleane, the extremity of poverty. - Cum, on good terms with."

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140. Pueris aptas, you are thrusting on the slaves; you are loading the slaves with. - Pellem, a skin, used perhaps as a packingcloth. Others, " a peasant's coat of untanned hide, Bairn."

142. Rapias, scour. Sollers, artful.

143. Seductum moneat, takes you aside for a warning. 144. Mascula = robusta. — Bilis here implies madness.

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tu-ne. -Fulto agrees with tibi.

147 sq. Veientanumque. . . . obba, and shall a squab jug exhale the fumes of reddish Veientan spoilt by the fusty pitch? - Casks and jars were pitched in order to preserve the wine.

149 sq. Ut nummi . . . . deunces, that your money you had been nursing here at a modest five per cent., may go on to sweat out a greedy eleven per cent.?

151 sq. Nostrum... vivis, your life is ours, belongs to you and me: all we have now is that you live. Two other explanations are, only that part of life which you bestow on me is life; and, It is all in our favor that you are alive.

153. Hoc quod loquor inde est, this very speech of mine is so much taken off from it.

154. Cf. Verg. Aen. ii. 39: scinditur incertum studia in contraria vulgus. Duplici hamo, a couple of hooks.

155 and 156. Alternus, by turns. Oberres, go at large.

159. Nodum, "the knot, by which the chair is fastened to the bar of the door (sera). Cf. Prop. iv. 11, 26."

161-174. A dialogue between a confidential slave, Davus, and his young master, Chaerestratus, imitated from the Eunuchus of Menander.

163. An.... cognatis, what! shall I be a standing disgrace in the way of my sober relations?

165. Udas, dripping. Variously explained, as "with unguents," "with wine," "with tears," "with rain" (cf. Hor. Carm. iii. 10, 19 sq.: non hoc semper erit liminis aut aquae caelestis patiens latus). 169. Puer, my boy.

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170. Trepidare, to be restive.

174. Hic, adverb. "If a man can make such a resolution and keep it, he is the free man, - not the lictor's whirligig."

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175. Festuca, straw, stubble. 'Plutarch, de S. N. Vind., p. 550, says that one of the lictors threw stubble on the manumitted slave. The word appears to be technical, not used in a contemptuous sense. Exfestucare occurs in the laws of the Alemanni and Saxons, and elsewhere in mediaeval Latinity. Palgrave (Hist. of Normandy and England, vol. ii., q. v.) says, 'No symbol was of such universal application among ancient nations as the stipula, the festuca, the culm, the hawm." (Conington.)

176. Palpo, "maker of smooth speeches."

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177 sq. Cretata ambitio, "the white-washed goddess of canvassing." (Conington.) The toga of candidates for office (candidati) was rubbed with chalk to make it whiter. - Vigila, "be up early; "look alive.”—Cicer... populo," ply the scrambling rabble well with peas." (Pretor.) Cicer, vetches, a cheap article of food. - Nostra. I. e. celebrated in our aedileship. - Floralia. At the festival of Flora (28th April to 3d May) plays and brilliant games were exhibited, whose handsome preparation was one of the most important duties of a curule aedile. Among other customs of the festival, beans and vetches, the customary food of the lower classes, were thrown among the people, who scrambled for them to fill their bosoms. Cf. Hor. Sat. ii. 3, 182; Mart. viii. 78, 8.

179. Aprici apricantes. - Quid pulchrius? Best taken as the comment of the old men upon the remembered splendors of the entertainment: Was ever anything finer? Jahn thinks it an ironical comment of Persius.

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180. Herodis dies. According to the scholiast, the birthday of Herod the Great, which would naturally be celebrated by the Herodians. Horace, in his various mentions of Judaism,evidently implies that it was spreading, talked of, if not favored by the higher orders." 180 sqq. Unctaque .... violas, and the lamps, arranged in the greasy windows, supporting violet-wreaths, send up their unctuous clouds. The violae may have been either our violets or pansies. 182. Rubrum," the common color of pottery." -Amplexa, coiled round.

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183. Tumet, bulges.

184. Sabbata. "Persius seems to mix up feasts and fasts rather strangely, apparently with the notion that all the Jewish observances were gloomy."-Palles. Cf. Hor. Carm. iii. 27, 28.

185. Tum, next. - Lemares, hobgoblins. — Ovo pericula rupto. The scholiast says priests used to put eggs on the fire and observe whether the moisture came out from the side or the top, the bursting of the egg being considered a very dangerous sign. This observation was called booKOTIK. (Conington and Jahn.)

186. Two kinds of superstition are indicated: the old one of Cybele, and the later one of Isis. - Lusca. "Blindness was a special visitation of Isis. The priestess is supposed to be called lusca, as having herself felt the wrath of the goddess." 187. Incussere deos inflantis corpora, strike into you the gods that have a way of swelling out men's bodies, i. e. that send various diseases. Incussere. Gnomic aorist.

188. Praedictum, prescribed.

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189 sq. Dixeris . . ridet si dixeris, ridet. - Varricosos, i. e. qui varices habent, qualibus laborare solent qui diu multumque stant vel pedibus eunt. (Jahn.) "With the large calves," Conington. Others, straddling.

190. Crassum ridet, “breaks into a horse-laugh."-Fulfennius. The name is written various ways in the MSS., as Vulfenius, Pulfennius ("Jahn's last "). Fulfennius was preferred by Jahn in his first edition, both as found in two MSS. summae auctoritatis and in an ancient inscription (Murat. p. 816, 7). But the question is one on the shadow of an ass.- Ingens, "huge;' great, overgrown." "Persius hates the military cordially as the most perfect specimens of developed animalism, and consequently most antipathetic to a philosopher." (Conington, on Pers. Sat. iii. 77-87.)

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191. And bids “a clipped dollar" for a hundred Greek philosophers.

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185. Tum, next. - Lemares, hobgoblins.·

Ovo pericula The scholiast says priests used to put eggs on the fire and whether the moisture came out from the side or the top, the of the egg being considered a very dangerous sign. This obst was called workоK. (Conington and Jahn.)

186. Two kinds of superstition are indicated: the old one of and the later one of Isis. - Lusca. "Blindness was a specia tion of Isis. The priestess is supposed to be called lusca, as herself felt the wrath of the goddess." 187. Incussere deos tis corpora, strike into you the gods that have a way of swel men's bodies, i. e. that send various diseases. Incussere. aorist.

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188. Praedictum, prescribed. 189 sq. Dixeris . . ridet si dixeris, ridet. Varricosos, varices habent, qualibus laborare solent qui diu multumque s pedibus eunt. (Jahn.) “With the large calves,” Conington. straddling.

190. Crassum ridet, “breaks into a horse-laugh."-Fulfenni name is written various ways in the MSS., as Vulfenius, Pul ("Jahn's last"). Fulfennius was preferred by Jahn in his fi tion, both as found in two MSS. summae auctoritatis and in an inscription (Murat. p. 816, 7). But the question is one on the of an ass. Ingens, "huge;' great, overgrown." "Persiu the military cordially as the most perfect specimens of de animalism, and consequently most antipathetic to a philos (Conington, on Pers. Sat. iii. 77-87.)

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191. And bids "a clipped dollar" for a hundred Greek ophers.

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