[671] _Servilia_; i. e., some one as rich and debauched as Servilia, sister of Cato and mother of Brutus, with whom Cæsar intrigued, and lavished immense wealth on her. Vid. Suet, Jul., 50. Her sister, the wife of Lucullus, was equally depraved. [672] _Mores._ "In all things else, immoral, stingy, mean, But in her lusts a conscionable quean." Dryden. [673] _Hæc_, sc. Phædra, daughter of Minos, king of Crete. [674] _Stimulos._ "A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate." Gifford. [675] _Cæsaris uxor._ The story is told in Tacitus, Ann., xi., 12, seq. "In Silium, juventutis Romanæ _pulcherrimum_ ita exarserat, ut Juniam Silanam nobilem fœminam, matrimonio ejus exturbaret vacuoque adultero potiretur. Neque Silius _flagitii_ aut _periculi_ nescius erat: _sed certo si abnueret exitio_ et nonnullâ fallendi spe, simul magnis præmiis, opperiri futura, et præsentibus frui, pro solatio habebat." This happened A.D. 48, in the autumn, while Claudius was at Ostia. It was with great difficulty, after all, that Narcissus prevailed on Claudius to order Messalina's execution, cf. xiv., 331; Tac., Ann., xi., 37; and she was put to death at last without his knowledge. [676] _Auspex._ Suet., Claud. "Cum comperisset «Valeriam Messalinam» super cætera flagitia atque dedecora, C. Silio etiam nupsisse, _dote inter auspices consignatâ_, supplicio affecit." C. 26; cf. 36, 39. [677] _Lucernas._ "Before the evening lamps 'tis thine to die." Badham. [678] _Nota urbi et populo._ Juvenal uses almost the very words of Tacitus. "An discidium inquit (Narcissus) tuum nôsti? Nam matrimonium Silii vidit populus et senatus et miles: ac ni properè agis tenet urbem maritus." Ann., xi., 30. [679] _Prœbenda._ Cf. Tac., Ann., xi., 38. "Inevitable death before thee lies, But looks more kindly through a lady's eyes!" Dryden. [680] _Tomacula_, "the liver and other parts cut out of the pig minced up with the fat." Mart., i., Ep. xlii., 9, "Quod fumantia qui tomacla raucus circumfert tepidus coquus popinis." The other savory ingredients are given by Facciolati; the Greeks called them τεμάχη or τεμάχια. [681] _Munera._ "A soul that can securely death defy, And count it Nature's privilege to die." Dryden. [682] _Hercules._ Alluding to the well-known "Choice of Hercules" from Prodicus. Xen., Mem. [683] _Nullum numen._ Repeated, xiv., 315. [684] "The reasonings in this Satire," Gibbon says, "would have been clearer, had Juvenal distinguished between wishes the accomplishment of which could not fail to make us miserable, and those whose accomplishment might fail to make us happy. Absolute power is of the first kind; long life of the second." SATIRE XI. If Atticus[685] sups extravagantly, he is considered a splendid[686] fellow: if Rutilus does so, he is thought mad. For what is received with louder laughter on the part of the mob, than Apicius[687] reduced to poverty?