[70] _Pallas_, the freedman of Claudius, was enormously rich. The wealth and splendor of Licinus is again alluded to, Sat. xiv., 305. [71] _Pedibus albis._ The feet of imported slaves were marked with chalk. Cf. Sat. vii., 16. Plin., H. N., xxxv., 17. [72] _Salutato crepitat._ It refers either to the chattering of the young birds, when the old birds who have been in quest of food return to their nests (the whole _temple_ being deserted by men, serves, as the Schol. says, for a _nidus_ to birds); or, to the noise made by the old birds striking their beaks to announce their return. Cf. Ov., Met., vi., 97. [73] _Ordine rerum._ Cf. Mart., iv., Ep. 8. The _Forum_ is the old Forum Romanum. [74] _Apollo_, i. e., the Forum Augusti on the Palatine Hill. In the court where pleas were held stood an ivory statue of Apollo. Cf. Hor., i., Sat. ix., 78. [75] "And none must venture to pollute the place." Hodgson. Tantum, i. e., tantummodo. Cf. Pers., i. Sat., 114, Sacer est locus, ite profani, Extra meiete! [76] To all these places the client attends his patron; then, on his return, the rich man's door is closed, and he is at liberty to return home, without any invitation to remain to dinner. "The day's attendance closed, and evening come, The uninvited client hies him home." Badham. [77] _Nova._ "By witty spleen increased." Gifford. [78] "Friends, unenrich'd, shall revel o'er your bier, Tell the sad news, nor grace it with a tear." Hodgson. [79] _Tædâ._ Cf. viii., 235, "Ausi quod libeat tunica punire molestâ." Tac., Ann., xv., 44, "Aut crucibus adfixi, aut flammandi, atque ubi defecisset dies, in usum nocturni luminis urerentur." Sen., de Ira, iii., 3, "Circumdati defixis corporibus ignes." [80] _Qui dedit_, i. e., Tigellinus. [81] _Committas_, a metaphor from pairing or matching gladiators in the arena. "Achilles may in epic verse be slain, And none of all his myrmidons complain; Hylas may drop his pitcher, none will cry, Not if he drown himself for company." Dryden. [82] _Flaminiâ._ The laws of the xii. tables forbade all burials within the city. The road-sides, therefore, were lined with tombs. Hence the common beginning of epitaphs, "Siste gradum viator." The peculiar propriety of the selection of these two roads is the fact that Domitian was buried by the Flaminian, and Paris, the mime, Juvenal's personal enemy, by the Latin road. SATIRE II.