O lapathe, ut iactare nec es sati cognitu' qui sis-- Quod sumptum atque epulas victu praeponis honesto.] [Footnote 21: Munifici comesque amicis nostris videamur viri-- Sic amici quaerunt animum, rem parasiti ac ditias. Among the friends of Lucilius, besides Scipio and Laelius, were Aelius Stilo, Albinus, and Granius, whom Cicero quotes for his wit.] [Footnote 22: Querquera consequitur capitisque dolores Infesti mihi.-- Si tam corpu' loco validum ac regione maneret. Scriptoris quam vera manet sententia cordi.] [Footnote 23: Verum haec ludus ibi susque omnia deque fuerunt, Susque et deque fuere, inquam, omnia ludu' iocusque.] [Footnote 24: Et saepe quod ante Optasti, freta Messanae, Regina videbis Moenia.] [Footnote 25: Quantum haurire animus Musarum ec fontibu' gestit.] [Footnote 26: Cum sciam nil esse in vita proprium mortali datum Iam qua tempestate vivo chresin ad me recipio. Cf. Vitaque mancipio nulli datur, omnibus usu.] [Footnote 27: Cf. Virtus, Albine, etc. Infra, p. 240.] [Footnote 28: Peccare impune rati sunt Posse et nobilitate procul propellere iniquos.] [Footnote 29: Hostiliu' contra Pestem permitiemque catax quam et Maniu' nobis.] [Footnote 30: Cf. Cic. De Or. 1. 16: Sed ut solebat C. Lucilius saepe dicere, homo tibi (i.e. Scaevolae) subiratus, mihi propter eam causam minus quam volebat familiaris, sed tamen et doctus et perurbanus. Hor. Sat. ii. 1. 67:-- Aut laeso doluere Metello Famosisque Lupo cooperto versibus? Pers. i. 115:-- Secuit Lucilius urbem, Te Lupe, te Muci, et genuinum fregit in illis.] [Footnote 31: Fuit autem inter P. Africanum et Q. Metellum sine acerbitate dissensio.] [Footnote 32: Cf. Diversisque duobus vitiis, avaritia et luxuria civitatem laborare.--Livy, xxxiv. 4.] [Footnote 33: 'O Publius Gallonius, thou whirlpool of excess; thou art a miserable man, says he; never in thy life hast thou supped well, since thou spendest all thy substance in that lobster of thine and that monstrous sturgeon.' 'This too is the case at dinner, you will give oysters, bought at a thousand sesterces.' 'Sardines and fish-sauce are your death, O Lupus.' 'Long live, ye gluttons, gourmands, belly-gods.' 'One was attracted by sow-teats and a dish of fatted fowls; another by a gourmandising pike caught between the two bridges.' 'Then he wiped the ample table with a purple cloth.' The two last passages are reproduced by Horace in the lines:-- Unde datum sentis, lupus hic Tiberinus, an alto Captus hiet, pontesne inter iactatus, an amnis Ostia sub Tusci?--Sat. ii. 2. 31. And