[462] _Mitte Ostia._ So most of the commentators interpret it. "Send your Legatus to take the command of the troops for foreign service, waiting for embarkation at Ostia." But if so, "ad" should be expressed, and either Tiberina added, or Ostia made of the 1st declension. Britann., therefore, and Heinrich explain it, "Pass by his own doors;" omitte quærere illic, "he is far away." [463] _Sandapila._ The bier or open coffin, on which the poor, or those killed in the amphitheatre, were carried to burial; hence "sandapila popularis." Suet., Domit., 17. Stepney (in Dryden's version) thus enumerates these worthies: "Quacks, coffin-makers, fugitives, and sailors, Rooks, common soldiers, hangmen, thieves, and tailors." [464] _Resupinantis._ In Holyday's quaint version, "Among great Cybel's silent drums, which lack Their Phrygian priest, who lies drunk on his back." [465] _Ergastula._ Private prisons attached to Roman farms, in which the slaves worked in chains. The Tuscan were peculiarly severe. Vid. Dennis's Etruria, vol. i., p. xlviii. [466] _Turpia cerdoni._ Cf. iv., 13," Nam quod turpe bonis Titio Seioque decebat Crispinum." Pers., iv., 51, "Tollat sua munera cerdo." "And crimes that tinge with shame the cobbler's face, Become the lords of Brutus' honor'd race." Hodgson. [467] _Locasti._ "Lets out his voice (his sole remaining boast), And rants the nonsense of a clam'rous ghost." Hodgson. [468] _Sipario._ The curtain or drop-scene in _comedy_, as _Aulæum_ was in _tragedy_. Donat. [469] _Phasma._ Probably a translation from the Greek. Ter., Eun., pr. 9, "Idem Menandri phasma nunc nuper dedit." Catullus is not to be confounded with C. Valerius Catullus of Verona (the old Schol. says Q. Lutatius Catullus is meant, and quotes xiii., 11, whom Lubinus, ad loc., calls "Urbanus Catullus") as far as the Phasma is concerned.--_Laureolus_ was the chief character in a play or ballet by Val. Catullus, or Laberius, or Nævius: and was crucified on the stage, and then torn to pieces by wild beasts. Martial (de Spect., Ep. vii.) says this was acted _to the life_ in the Roman amphitheatre, the part of the bandit being performed by a real malefactor, who was crucified and torn to pieces in the arena, "Non falsâ pendens in cruce Laureolus." "And Lentulus _acts_ hanging with such art, Were I a judge, he should not _feign_ the part." Dryden. [470] _Sedet._ "Sit with unblushing front, and calmly see The hired patrician's low buffoonery; Smile at the Fabii's tricks, and grin to hear The cuffs resound from the Mamerci's ear." Gifford. [471] _Cogente Nerone._ Cf. Tac., Ann., xiv., 14, who abstains from mentioning the _names_ of the nobles thus disgraced, out of respect for their ancestors. Cf. Dio., lxi. Suetonius says (Nero, cap. xii.) that 400 senators and 600 knights were thus dishonored (but Lipsius says 40 and 60 are the true numbers). [472] _Nec dubitant._ No doubt a spurious line.