JUVENAL, _Sat._ viii. 237-239, 243-250. [Linenotes: 239. +in omni monte+, i.e. in every part of Rome, on each of the seven hills. 244. +patrem patriae:+ under the Empire the title _pater patriae_ became a formal one, always accorded to the new Emperor. +libera+ = _while yet free_, emphatic. The State was no longer free when Augustus received this title, 2 B.C.--Duff. 247. +frangebat vertice vitem+ = _he had the vine-switch (rattan) broken on his head_, i.e. served as a common soldier. --D. 248. +dolabra+ = half-hatchet for cutting stakes, and half-pickaxe for digging the fossa. For +dolabra+, cf. _Dolabella_. 249. +Cimbros+, annihilated by Marius and Catulus near Vercellae, 101 B.C. 250. +Excipit+ = _faced_ (lit. _is ready to receive_); metaphor from field-sports. --D.] B. _From a poem by Cicero on his fellow-townsman Marius._ Hic Iovis altisoni subito pinnata satelles Arboris e trunco serpentis saucia morsu Surrigit ipsa feris transfigens unguibus anguem Semianimum et varia graviter cervice micantem. 4 . . . . . . . Hanc ubi praepetibus pennis lapsuque volantem Conspexit Marius, divini numinis augur, Faustaque signa suae laudis reditusque notavit, Partibus intonuit caeli pater ipse sinistris: Sic aquilae clarum firmavit Iuppiter omen. [Linenotes: 1. +Iovis pinnata satelles+, i.e. the Eagle. Cf. Pindar, _Pyth._ i. 6: εὕδει δ’ ἀνὰ σκάπτῳ (= σκήπτρῳ) Διὸς αἰετός, _and sleeps on the staff of Zeus his eagle_. 3. +Surrigit+ (= _surgit_) = _raises up_; very rare in this sense. The _v.l._ +Sūbigit+ (for _sŭbigit_) = _carries aloft_.] Compare Plutarch’s story of the eagle’s nest, with seven young ones in it, which fell into the lap of Marius when a boy, predicting (so the diviners said) that Marius would be seven times Consul. B5 _The Annihilation of the Teutones at Aquae Sextiae, 102 B.C._