[931] _Rutilus._ Used probably indefinitely, as in Sat. xi., 2, "Si Rutilus, demens." Rutilus was a surname of the Marcian, Virginian, and Nantian clans. [932] _Servorum._ Gifford quotes an apposite passage from Macrobius, i., 2, "Tibi autem unde in servos tantum et tam immane fastidium? Quasi non ex iisdem tibi constent et alantur elementis, eumdemque spiritum ab eodem principe carpant!" [933] _Sirena._ Cf. ix., 150. [934] _Antiphates_, king of the cannibal Læstrygones. Hom., Odys., x., 114, _seq._ Ovid, Met., xiv., 233, _seq._ [935] _Tortore._ vi., 480, "Sunt quæ tortoribus annua præstent." "Knows no delight, save when the torturer's hand Stamps for low theft the agonizing brand." Gifford. [936] _Ergastula._ Cf. ad viii., 180. Put here, as in vi., 151, for the slaves themselves. As 15 freemen were said to constitute a _state_, and 15 slaves a _familia_, so "_quindecim vincti_" form one Ergastulum. It properly means the Bridewell, where they were set to "travaux forcis." Liv., ii., 23; vii., 4. The country prisons were generally under-ground dungeons. Branding on the forehead was a common punishment. Thieves had the word "Fur" burnt in; hence called "literati homines," "homines trium literarum." Plaut., Aul., II., iv., 46. Cicero calls one "compunctum notis, stigmatiam," Off., ii., 7. So "Inscripti vultus," Plin., xviii., 3. "Inscripti," Martial, Ep. viii, 79. Cf. Plin., Paneg., 35. Sat. x., 183. Plaut., Cas., II., vi., 49. [937] _Largæ._ Cf. vi., 239, "Scilicet expectas ut tradat mater honestos atque alios mores quam quos habet?" x., 220, "Promptius expediam quot amaverit Hippia mæchos." [938] _Dictante._ vi., 223, "Illa docet missis a corruptore tabellis, nil rude, nil simplex rescribere." [939] _Exempla._ From Cic, Ep., iv., 3, "Quod exemplo fit, id etiam jure fieri putant." [940] _Exempla domestica._ "Thus Nature bids our home's examples win The passive mind to imitative sin, And vice, unquestion'd, makes its easy way, Sanction'd by those our earliest thoughts obey." Badham. [941] _Luto._ Callim., fr. 133, εἴ σε Προμηθεὺς ἔπλασε καὶ πηλοῦ μὴ 'ξ ἑτέρου γέγονας. Ovid, Met, i., 80, "Sive recens tellus seductaque nuper ab alto æthere cognati retinebat semina cœli; Quam satus Iapeto mixtam fluvialibus undis finxit in effigiem moderantûm cuncta Deorum." Cf. Sat. vi., 13, "Compositive luto nullos habuere parentes." [942] _Orbita_, from orbis; "the track of a wheel." So by the same metaphor the "_routine_," or course of life. [943] _Abstineas._ "O cease from sin! should other reasons fail Lest our own frailties make our children frail." Badham. [944] _Brutus_ was the son of Servilia, the sister of Cato of Utica (cf. x., 319). So Sen., Ep. 97, "Omne tempus Clodios, non omne Catones fert." [945] _Procul hinc._ The formula at religious solemnities. Cf. ii., 89. Ov., Met., vii., 255, "Hinc procul Æsonidem, procul hinc jubet ire ministros, et monet arcanis oculos removere profanos."