[113] "Therefore (because I will lend myself to no peculation) no great man will take me in his suite when he goes to his province." Cf. Sat. viii., 127, "Si tibi sancta cohors comitum." This is better than, "Therefore I leave Rome alone!" Markland proposes, extinctâ dextrâ. [114] "Like a dead member from the body rent, Maim'd and unuseful to the government." Dryden. "No man's confederate, here alone I stand, Like the maim'd owner of a palsied hand." Badham. "Lopp'd from the trunk, a dead, unuseful hand." Hodgson. [115] Isa., lvii., 20. [116] _Opaci_, Lubin. interprets as equivalent to turbulenti, "turbid with gold." On this Grangæus remarks, "Apage Germani haud germanam interpretationem! _opaci_ enim est umbris arborum obscuri." Cf. Mart., i., Ep. 50, "Æstus serenos aureo franges Tago _obscurus umbris arborum_." [117] "Grasp thou no boon with sadness on thy brow, Spurn the base bribe that binds a guilty vow." Badham. [118] "Shame for Rome that harbors such a crew." [119] The Roman hind, once so renowned for rough and manly virtues, now wears the costume of effeminate Greeks: or all these Greek terms, used to show the poet's supreme contempt, may refer to the games: the Trechedipna, not the thin supper-robe, but the same as the Endromis. The Ceroma, an ointment made of oil, wax, and clay, with which they bedaubed themselves. [120] Amydon in Pœonia, Tralles in Lydia, Alabanda in Caria. [121] "Work themselves inward, and their patrons out." Dryden. "Deep in their patron's heart, and fix'd as fate, The future lords of all his vast estate." Hodgson. [122] "Torrents of words that might Isæus drown." Badham. [123] Aliptes, one who anoints (ἀλείφει), and therefore trains, athletes. [124] So Johnson. "All sciences the hungry Monsieur knows, And bid him go to hell--to hell he goes!" [125] Some think there is an allusion here to a man who attempted to repeat Icarus' experiment before Nero. Vid. Suet., Nero, 13. [126] _Cottana_, "ficorum genus." Plin., xiii., 5. [127] "As if squeezed in the passage by the narrowness of the throat." [128] His powers of flattery show his ability of assuming a fictitious character as much as his skill in acting. [129] Or the "Dorian maid." They were scantily dressed. Hence the φαινομηρίδες of Ibycus. [130] _Major abolla_, seems to be a proverbial expression; it may either be the "Stoic's cloak," which was more _ample_ than the scanty robe of the Cynic; or "the _philosopher's_ cloak," which has therefore more dignity and weight with it than the soldier's or civilian's. The allusion is to P. Egnatius Celer, the Stoic, who was bribed to give the false testimony on which Bareas Soranus was convicted. V. Tac., Ann., xvi., 21, seq., and 32. [131] _Ripa._ Commentators are divided between Tarsus, Thebes, and Corinth. [132] _Togatus._ Gifford quotes Martial, x., Ep. 10.