[52] _Marius Priscus_, proconsul of Africa, was condemned for extortion, A.D. 100. Vid. Clinton in a. Pliny the Younger was his accuser, 2 Ep., xi. (Cf. Sat. viii., 120, "Cum tenues nuper Marius discinxerit Afros.") Though condemned, he saved his money; and was, as Gifford renders it, "by a juggling sentence damn'd in vain." The ninth hour (three o'clock) was the earliest hour at which the temperate dined. Cf. Mart., iv., Ep. 8, "Imperat exstructos frangere nona toros." Cf. Hor., i., Od. i., 20. [53] _Venusium_, or Venusia, the birthplace of Horace. [54] "Vitreo daturus nomina Ponto." Hor., iv., Od. ii., 3. [55] _Jus nullum uxori._ Cf. Suet., Dom., viii. "Probrosis fœminis ademit jus capiendi legata hæreditatesque." [56] The Flaminian road ran the whole length of the Campus Martius, and was therefore the most conspicuous thoroughfare in Rome. It is now the Corso. [57] _Lacernatæ._ The Lacerna was a male garment: the allusion is probably to Nero and his "eunuch-love" Sporus. Vid. Suet., Nero, 28. [58] "Signator-falso," sc. testamento. Cf. Sat. xii., 125, and Bekker's Charicles. "Fram'd a short will and gave himself the whole." Hodgson. "A few short lines authentic made, By a forged seal the inheritance convey'd." Badham. [59] _Locusta._ Vid. Tac., Ann., xii., 66, 67. She was employed by Agrippina to poison Claudius, and by Nero to destroy Germanicus. On the accession of Galba she was executed. Cf. Suet., Nero, 33. [60] "Reckless of whispering mobs that hover near." Badham. "Nor heed the curse of the indignant throng." Gifford. [61] _Gyarus_, a barren island in the Ægean. Vid. Tac., Ann., iii, 68, 69. "Insulam Gyarum immitem et sine cultu hominum esse." Cf. Sat. x., 170; vi., 563. [62] "The raw noble in his boyish gown." Hodgson. "Stripling debauchee." Gifford. The sons of the nobility wore the toga prætexta till the age of seventeen. [63] "While whelming torrents swell'd the floods below." Badham. [64] _Arcâ._ Cf. Sat. x., 24. [65] _Reddere._ Probably "to pay what has been _long_ due." [66] _Secreto_, "without their clients," opposed to the "in propatulo" of Val. Max., ii., 5. ἔῤῥ' ἐς κόρακας μονόφαγε. Alex. [67] In former days the Romans entertained their clients, after the day's officium was over, at supper, which was called "cœna recta." In later times, the clients, instead of this, received their portion of the supper, which they carried away in a small basket, "sportula," or a kind of portable kitchen. Cf. iii., 249. This was again changed, and an equivalent in money (centum quadrantes, about twenty pence English) given instead. Domitian restored the "cœna recta." Cf. Suet., Dom., vii.; Nero, xvi. [68] _Fenestræ._ Cf. Xen., Anab., III., i., 31. Exod., xxi., 6. [69] "Shall I then yield, though born perchance a slave, To the proud beggar in his laticlave?" Hodgson.