[72] According to Tacitus, Piso retired to his house and there opened his veins. Vid. Ann. xv. 59. [73] Cf. Shakespeare, "Make mad the guilty and appal the free." Hamlet, II. 2. [74] So the 4tos; but Quy. "The Emperour's much pleas'd _That_ some have named _Seneca_." [75] Cf. Tacitus, Ann. xv. 45; Sueton. Vit. Ner. 32. [76] In Tacitus' account (Ann. xv. 67) the climax is curious:-- "'Oderam te,' inquit; 'nec quisquam tibi fidelior militum fuit dum amari meruisti: odisse coepi, postquam parricida matris et uxoris, auriga et histrio et incendiarius extitisti.'" [77] The verses would run better thus:-- "A feeling one; _Tigellinus_, bee't thy charge, And let me see thee witty in't. _Tigell_. Come, sirrah; Weele see." &c. [78] Quy. was oreheard to say. [79] 4tos. your. [80] Quy. even skies. [81] Quy. I'the firmament. [82] 4tos. loath by. [83] Martial, in a clever but coarse epigram (lib. xi. 56), ridicules the Stoic's contempt of death:-- "Hanc tibi virtutem fracta facit urceus ansa, Et tristis nullo qui tepet igne focus, Et teges et cimex et nudi sponda grabati, Et brevis atque eadem nocte dieque toga. O quam magnus homo es, qui faece rubentis aceti Et stipula et nigro pane carere potes. * * * * * Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam: Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest." [84] Cf. Juv. Sat. v. 36, 37:-- "Quale coronati Thrasea Helvidiusque bibebant, Brutorum et Cassi natalibus." The younger Pliny (Ep. iii. 7) relates that Eilius Italicus religiously observed Vergil's birthday. [85] The 4tos. punctuate thus:-- "Here faire _Enanthe_, whose plumpe ruddy cheeke Exceeds the grape, it makes this; here my geyrle." Petronius is speaking hurriedly. He begins to answer _Enanthe's_ question: "it makes this" (i.e. "means this"), he says, but breaks off his explanation, and pledges his mistress. [86] 4tos. walles. [87] 4tos. Ith. [88] "Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum." Horat. Epist. i. 17, 36 ([Greek: ou pantos andros es Korinthon esth' ho plous]). [89] Quy. Th'old _Anicean_ (sc. Anacreon). [90] A paraphrase of Horace's well-known lines: "Linquenda tellus, et domus, et placens Uxor; neque harum, quas colis, arborum, Te, praeter invisas cupressos, Ulla brevem dominum sequeter." --Odes, ii. 14, ll. 21-29. [91] 4to. your. [92] 4tos. thy. [93] Cf. Horace, Od. i. 12, ll. 37, 38:-- "Regulum, et Scauros _animaeque magnae Prodigum_ Paulum." [94] Vid. Tacitus, Ann. xi. 11; Sueton. Vit. Ner. 6. [95] 4tos. have. [96] 4tos. night. [97] The punning on the fairies' names recalls Bottom's pleasantries (M.N.D. iii. 1), and the resemblance is certainly too close to be accidental. [98] "Uncoth" here = wild, unfrequented; Cf. _As You Like It_, ii. 6, "If this _uncouth_ forest yield anything savage," &c.