"Brag of thy father's faults, they are thine own; Brag of his lands, if they are not foregone: Brag of thine own good deeds; for they are thine, More than his life, or lands, or golden line." [420] _Nerone._ Cf. ad l. 39. [421] _Sensus communis._ There are few phrases in Juvenal on which the commentators are more divided. Some interpret it exactly in the sense of the English words "common sense." Others, "fellow-feeling, sympathy with mankind at large." Browne takes it to be "tact." Cf. Hor., i., Sat. iii., 66; Phædr., i., Fab. vii., 4. There is a long and excellent note in Gifford, who translates it himself by "a sense of modesty," but allows that in Cicero it means "a polite intercourse between man and man;" in Horace, "suavity of manners;" in Seneca, "a proper regard for the decencies of life:" by others it is used for all these, which together constitute what we call "courteousness, or good breeding." So Quintilian, I., ii., 20. Hodgson turns it, "For plain good sense, first blessing of the sky, Is rarely met with in a state so high." Badham, "In that high estate Plain common sense is far from common fate." [422] _Stratus humi._ "Stretch'd on the ground, the vine's weak tendrils try To clasp the elm they dropped from, fail, and die." Gifford. [423] _Summum crede nefas._ See some beautiful remarks in Coleridge's Introduction to the Greek Poets, p. 24, 25. [424] _Pudori._ "At honor's cost a feverish span extend, And sacrifice for life, life's only end! Life! I profane the word: can those be said To live, who merit death? No! they are dead." Gifford. [425] _Gaurana._ Gaurus (cf. ix., 57), a mountain of Campania, near Baiæ and the Lucrine Lake, which was famous for oysters (cf. iv., 141, "Lucrinum ad saxum Rutupinove edita fundo Ostrea," Plin., iii., 5. Martial, v., Ep. xxxvii., 3, "Concha Lucrini delicatior stagni"), now called "Gierro." [426] _Cosmus_, a celebrated perfumer, mentioned repeatedly by Martial. [427] _Capito._ Cossutianus Capito, son-in-law of Tigellinus (cf. i., 155. Tac., Ann., xiv., 48; xvi., 17), was accused by the Cilicians of peculation and cruelty ("maculosum fœdumque, et idem jus audaciæ in provincia ratum quod in urbe exercuerat"), and condemned "lege repetundarum." Tac., Ann., xiii., 33. Thrasea Pætus was the advocate of the Cilicians, and in revenge for this, when Capito was restored to his honors by the influence of Tigellinus, he procured the death of Thrasea. Ann., xvi., 21, 28, 33. Of Numitor nothing is known save that he plundered these Cilicians, themselves once the most notorious of pirates. Cf. Plat. in Pomp. Some read Tutor; a Julius Tutor is mentioned repeatedly in the fourth book of Tac. Hist., but with no allusion to his plundering propensities. [428] _Naulum._ "Nor, though your earthly goods be sunk and lost, Lose the poor waftage of the wandering ghost." Hodgson.