[634] _Palato._ Compare Barzillai's speech to David, 2 Sam., xix., 35, "I am this day fourscore years old; and can I discern between good or evil? can thy servant taste what I eat and what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women?" [635] _Vini._ "Now pall the tasteless meats, and joyless wines, And Luxury with sighs her slave resigns." Johnson. [636] _Viribus._ Shakspeare, King Henry IV., Part ii., Act ii., sc. 4, "Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?" [637] _Auratâ._ Cic. ad Heren., iv., 47, "Uti citharædus cum prodierit optimè vestitus, pallâ _inauratâ_ indutus, cum chlamyde purpureâ coloribus variis intextâ, cum coronâ aureâ, magnis _fulgentibus_ gemmis illuminatâ." Horace, A. P., 215, "Luxuriem addidi arti Tibicen, traxitque vagus per pulpita vestem." [638] _Nuntiet horas._ Slaves were employed to watch the dials in the houses of those who had them, and report the hour: those who had no dial sent to the Forum. Cf. Mart., viii., 67. Suet., Domit., xvi., "Sexta nuntiata est." [639] _Gelido._ Virg., Æn., v., 395, "Sed enim _gelidus_ tardante senectâ _Sanguis_ hebet, _frigentque_ effœtæ in corpora vires." [640] _Themison_ of Laodicea in Syria, pupil of Asclepiades, was an eminent physician of the time of Pompey the Great, and is said to have been the founder of the "Methodic" school, as opposed to the "Empiric." Vid. Cels., Præf. Plin., N. H., xxix., 15. Others say he lived in Augustus' time, and Hodgson thinks he may have lived even to Juvenal's days. Cicero (de Orat., i., 14) mentions an Asclepiades; and the names of at least _three_ others are mentioned in later times. [641] _Quo tondente._ Cf. i., 35. [642] _Hiat._ Cf. Lucian, Tim., ἐμὲ περιμένουσι κεχηνότες ὥσπερ τὴν χελιδόνα προσπετομένην τετριγότες οἰ νεοσσοί. P. 72, E., ed. Bened. [643] _Jejuna_, from Hom., Il., ix., 323, ὡς δ' ὄρνις ἀπτῆσι νεοσσοῖσι προφέρῃσι μάστακ', ἐπεί κε λάβῃσι, κακῶς δέ τέ οἱ πέλει αὐτῇ. [644] _Phialen._ "Forgets the children he begot and bred, And makes a strumpet heiress in their stead." Gifford. [645] _Nigrâ._ "And liveries of black for length of years." Dryden. [646] _Pylius._ Hom., Il., i., 250, μετὰ δὲ τριτάτοισιν ἄνασσεν. So Odyss., iii., 245, τρὶς γὰρ δή μίν φασιν ἀνάξασθαι γένε' ἀνδρῶν. [647] _Cornice._ "Next to the raven's age, the Pylian king Was longest-lived of any two-legged thing." Dryden. [648] _Dextra._ This the Greeks express by ἀναπεμπάζεσθαι. They counted on the left hand as far as a hundred, then on the right up to two hundred, and then again on the left for the third hundred. Holyday has a most elaborate explanation of the method. [649] _Antilochi._ Cf. Hor., II., Od. ix., 14. [650] _Natantem._ Cf. Hom., Od., v., 388, 399. "So Peleus sigh'd to join his hero lost-- Laertes his on boundless billows toss'd." Hodgson. [651] _Polyxena_, from Eurip., Hec., 556, λαβοῦσα πέπλους ἐξ ἄκρας ἐπωμίδος ἔῤῥηξε.