"Anoint, boy, the pot-herbs. Shall there be for me on a "festival-day boiled "A nettle, and a smoky hog's cheek with a cracked ear, 70 "That that grandson of yours should hereafter be stuff'd "with a goose's bowels, "When his froward humour shall long to gratify itself "With some lady of quality? Shall a woof of a figure "Be left to me: but to him shall a gluttonous belly tremble "with caul?— 75 "Sell your life for gain; buy, and, cunning, search "Every side of the world: let not another exceed you "In applauding fat Cappadocians in a rigid cage. "Double your estate:""I have done it :-Now threefold, now to me the fourth time, 66 "Now ten times it returns into a fold; mark down where "I shall stop, your life and all the comforts of it-i. e. expose it to every difficulty and danger; in short, take all occasions to make money, let the risk be what it may. See sat. v. 1. 133-6. Epitrope. -"Buy."] Purchase whatever will turn to profit. -“Cunning."] Shrewd, dexterous, in your dealings. 66 75, 6. "Search every side of the world."] Sail to every part of the world, that you may find new articles of merchandize. 76. "Let not another exceed," &c.] Make yourself thorough master of the slave-trade, that you may know how to bring slaves to market, and to commend and set them off to the best advantage -Plausisse-literally, to have clapped with the hand. It was customary for the mangones, or those who dealt in slaves, to put them into a sort of cage, called catasta, in the forum, or marketplace, where the buyers might see them: to whom the owners commended them for their health, strength, and fitness for the business for which they wanted them; also they clapped or slapped their bodies with their hands, to shew the hardness and firmness of their flesh. The slaves had fetters on; therefore the poet says-rigida catasta. They had arts to pamper them, to make them look sleek and fat; they also painted them to set them off, as to their complexion and countenance: hence the slave-deal ers were called mangones. See AINSW. Mango; and Juv. xi. 1. 147. 77."Fat Cappadocians."] Cappadocia was a large country in the Lesser Asia, famous for horses, mules, and slaves. It has been before observed, that the slaves, when imported for sale, were pampered to make them appear sleek and fat-or perhaps we may understand, by pingues, here, that the Cappadocians were naturally more plump and lusty than others. 78. "Double your estate."] i. e. By the interest which you make. "I have done it."] That, says the miser, I have already done. 79." Ten times it returns into a fold."] i. e. It is now tenfold. Metaph. from garments, which the fuller they are, the more folds they make: hence duplex, from duo, two, and plico, to fold-triplex, from tres, and plico, &c. So the verbs, duplico, to double, to make twofold-triplico, &c. Ruga, Gr. puris a puw -i. e. epuw, traho, quod ruga cutim aut vestem in plicas contrahat. See AINSW. "Mark down," &c.] Depunge-metaph. from making points on a balance, at which the needle, or beam, stopping, gave the exact weight. See Juv. sat. v. I. 100, and note. The miser, finding his desires increase, as his riches increase, knows not where to stop: Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit. Juv. sat. xiv. 1. 139. "Inventus, Chrysippe, tui finitor acervi!" 80." O Chrysippus," &c.] A Stoic philosopher, a disciple of Zeno, or according to others, of Cleanthes. He was the inventor of the argument, or vicious syllogism, called sorites, from Gr. owpos, an heap, it consisting of a great number of propositions heaped one upon the other, so that there was hardly any end to be found-A proper emblem of covetous desire, which is continually increasing. Persius calls Chrysippus, inventus finitor, the only finisher, that was found, of his own heap-because he investigated the method of putting an end to the propositions, or questions, in that mode of argument, and wrote four books on the subject. This the poet may be supposed to be deriding in this place, as in truth an impossible thing, Chrysippus himself having devised no better expedient, than to state only a certain number of proposi 80 "O Chrysippus, the found finisher of your own heap.” hands, much beyond what I at first expected, I should hope that the Reader, so far from blaming the length of the performance, will approve the particularity, and even minuteness, of the observations, which I have made on the preceding Satires of Juvenal and Persius, as on all hands they are allowed to be the most difficult of the Latin writers: therefore mere cursory remarks, here and there scattered on particular passages, would assist the Reader but little, in giving him a complete and consistent view of the whole; to this end every separate part should be explained, that it may be well understood and properly arranged within the mind: this, I trust, will stand as an apology for the length of these papers, which, wherever they may find their way, will be attended with the Editor's best wishes, that they may 80 carry those solid and weighty instructions to the mind, which it is the business of our two Satirists to recommend--Delectando pariterque monendo. However Persius may be deemed inferior to Juvenal as a poet, yet he is his equal as a moralist; and as to the honesty and sincerity with which he wrote"There is a spirit of sincerity," says Mr. Dryden, “in all he says-in this he "is equal to Juvenal, who was as honest and serious as Persius, and more he "could not be." 66 I have observed, in several parts of the foregoing notes on Persius, his imitations of Horace-The reader may see the whole of these accurately collected, and observed upon-CASAUB. Persina Horatii Imitatio, at the end of his Commentaries on the Satires. INDEX TO JUVENAL. Ethiopis, vi. 599. Ethiopum, v. 150. Æthiopem, ii. 23. viii. 33. Antiphates, xiv. 20. Africa, vii. 149. x. 148. Afris, v. 152. Ajax, vii. 115. x. 84. xiv. Albana, iv. 100. Alcithoën, vii. 12. Antonius,viii. 105. xi. 123 proper name, vi. 64. Aristotelem, ii. 6. Armenius, ii. 164. vi. 549. Armillato, iv. 53. Aruspex. See Haruspex. Athenis, iii. 80. ix. 101. Athos, x. 174. Atlanta, viii. 32. xiii. 48. Atlas, xi. 24. Augusta meretrix, vi. 118. Autumno, occiderit, &c. Autumnos, vi. 229. Autumnus, v. 151. |