[385] _Gelidas._ "Cicutæ refrigeratoria vis: quos enecat incipiunt algere ab extremitatibus corporis." Plin., xxv., 13. Plat., Phædo, fin. Pers., iv., 1. [386] _Dii Majorum_, etc. "Shades of our sires! O sacred be your rest, And lightly lie the turf upon your breast; Flowers round your urns breathe sweets beyond compare, And spring eternal bloom and flourish there! Your honor'd tutors, now a slighted race, And gave them all a parent's power and place!" Gifford. [387] _Rufus_, according to the old Schol., was a native of Gaul. Grangæus calls him Q. Curtius Rufus, and says nothing more is known of him than that he was an eminent rhetorician. He is here represented as charging Cicero with barbarisms or provincialisms, such as a Savoyard would use. [388] _Enceladus._ Nothing is known of him. [389] _Palæmon._ Vid. ad vi., 451. [390] _Cadurci._ Cf. vi., 537. [391] _Non pereat._ "Yes, suffer this! while something's left to pay Your rising, hours before the dawn of day; When e'en the lab'ring poor their slumbers take, And not a weaver, not a smith's awake." Gifford. [392] _Cognitione Tribuni._ Not a tribune of the people, but one of the Tribuni Ærarii, to whom the cognizance of such complaints belonged. [393] _Historias._ Tiberius was exceedingly fond of propounding to grammarians, a class of men whom he particularly affected (quod genus hominum præcipuè appetebat), questions of this nature, to sound their "notitia historiæ usque ad ineptias atque derisum." Cf. Suet., Tib., 70, 57. [394] _Nutricem._ The names of these two persons are said to have been Casperia and Tisiphone. [395] _Aurum._ i. e., 5 aurei, the highest reward allowed to be given. The aureus, which varied in value, was at this time worth 25 denarii; a little more than 16 shillings English. Cf. Mart., x., Ep. lxxiv., 5. SATIRE VIII.