[1098] _Malos homines._ Cf. Herod., i., 68. Plin., vii., 16. Lucretius, ii., 1149, "Jamque adeo fracta est ætas, effœtaque tellus Vix animalia parva creat, quæ cuncta creavit sæcla." Sen., de Ben., I., c. x., "Hoc majores nostri questi sunt, hoc nos querimur, hoc posteri nostri querentur, eversos esse mores, regnare nequitiam, in deterius res humanas labi." Hor., iii., Od. vi., 46, "Ætas parentum, pejor avis, tulit nos nequiores, mox daturos Progeniem vitiosiorem." [1099] _Diverticulo._ Properly "a cross-road," then "a place to which we turn aside from the high road; halting or refreshing place." Cf. Liv., ix., 17. [1100] _Infestis._ So Virg., Æn., v., 582, "Convertêre vias, _infesta_que tela tulere." 691, "Vel tu quod superest _infesto_ fulmine morti, Si mereor dimitte." x., 877, "_Infestâ_ subit obvius hastâ." Liv., ii., 19, "Tarquinius Superbus quanquam jam ætate et viribus gravior, equum _infestus_ admisit." [1101] _Tentyra._ Cf. ad l. 35. Salmasius proposes to read here "Pampæ" (the name of a small town) for _Palmæ_ on account of the difficulty stated above; and supposes this to be Juvenal's way of distinguishing Tentyra: but Pampa is a much _smaller_ place than Tentyra; and no one would describe London, as Browne observes, as "London near Chelsea." He imagines also that Juvenal is describing an affray that took place between the people of Cynopolis and Oxyrynchis about this time, mentioned by Plutarch (de Isid. et Osirid.), and that he has changed the names for the sake of the metre. Heinrich leaves the difficulty unsolved. Browne supposes _two_ places of the name of Tentyra. [1102] _Labitur._ Gifford compares Hesiod., Herc. Scut., 251, Δῆριν ἔχον περὶ πιπτόντων· πᾶσαι δ' ἄρ ἵεντο αἷμα μέλαν πιέειν· ὃν δὲ πρῶτον μεμάποιεν κείμενον ἢ πίπτοντα νεούτατον, ἀμφὶ μὲν αὐτῷ βάλλ' ὄνυχας μεγάλους. [1103] _Longum._ "'T had been lost time to dress him; keen desire Supplies the want of kettle, spit, and fire." Dryden. [1104] _Prometheus._ Vid. Hesiod., Op. et Di., 49, _seq._ Theog., 564. Æsch., P. Vinct., 109. Hor., i., Od. iii., 27. Cic., Tusc. Qu., II., x., 23. Mart., xiv., Ep. 80. [1105] _Gratulor._ So Ov., Met., x., 305, "Gentibus Ismariis et nostro gratulor orbi, gratulor huic terræ, quod abest regionibus illis, Quæ tantum genuere nefas." [1106] _Te exsultare._ Juvenal's friend Volusius is supposed to have had a leaning toward the doctrine of the fire-worshipers. At least this is the puerile way in which most of the commentators endeavor to escape the difficulty. [1107] _Libentius._ "But he who tasted first the human food, Swore never flesh was so divinely good." Hodgson. [1108] _Ultimus._ "And the last comer, of his dues bereft, Sucks from the bloodstain'd soil some flavor left." Badham.