"Quid faciet pauper cui non licet esse clienti? Dimisit nostras purpura vestra togas." [133] _Collega_; alluding to the two prætors, "Urbanus" and "Peregrinus." [134] _Claudit latus._ This is the order Britannicus takes. "Claudere latus" means not only to accompany, as a mark of respect, but to give the inner place; to become his "comes exterior." Horace, ii., Sat. v., 18. So Gifford, "And if they walk beside him yield the wall." [135] "For one cold kiss a tribune's yearly pay." Hodgson. i. e., forty-eight pieces of gold. Cf. Suet., Vesp., xxiii. [136] P. Scipio Nasica (vid. Liv., xxix., 10) and L. Cæcilius Metellus. Cf. Ov., Fasti, vi., 437. [137] Possidet. Vid. Niebuhr. [138] Cf. Mart., v., Ep. 8 and 25, who speaks of one Lectius as an officious keeper of the seats. [139] Sat. x., 323. [140] "Long, long ago, in one despairing band, The poor, self-exiled, should have left the land." Hodgson. [141] "A menial board and parsimonious fare." Hodgson. [142] "Negavit." Some commentators imagine Curius Dentatus to be here alluded to. It seems better to take it as a _general_ remark. Read "culullo," not "cucullo," with Browne. [143] Cf. Mart., ix., 588. [144] _Herboso_, the first permanent theatre even in Rome itself, was built by Pompey. Cf. In gradibus sedit populus de cæspite factis. Ov., Art. Am., i., 107. Cf. Virg., Æn., v., 286. [145] "In the state show repeated now for years." Hodgson. [146] _Libis._ So many of these "complimentary cakes" are sent in honor of this event, that they are actually "sold" to get rid of them. "Good client, quickly to the mansion send Cakes bought by thee for rascal slaves to vend." Badham. [147] _Gabii_, renowned for the ease with which Sex. Tarquin duped the inhabitants. [148] _Pronum_, i. e., supinum. Hor., iii., Od. iv., 23, on a steep acclivity. [149] "And 'tis the village mason's daily calling, To keep the world's metropolis from falling." Dryden. [150] "Then bid the tenant sleep secure from dread, While the loose pile hangs trembling o'er his head." Gifford. [151] _Opici._ Cf. vi., 455. Opicæ castigat amicæ verba; i. e., barbarous, rude, unlearned, "the Goths of mice;" from the Opici or Osci, an Ausonian tribe on the Liris, from whom many barbarous innovations were introduced into Roman manners and language. "Divina" may either refer to Homer's poems, or to Codrus' own, which in his own estimation were "divine." Cf. Sat. i., 2, "rauci Theseide _Codri_." [152] _Horrida._ In all public misfortunes, the Roman matrons took their part in the common mourning, by appearing without ornaments, in weeds, and with disheveled hair. Cf. viii., 267. Liv., ii., 7. Luc., Phars., ii., 28, _seq._ [153] _Candida._ Cf. Plin., xxxiv., 5. The Parian marble was the whitest, hence Virg., Æn., iii., 126, "Niveamque Paron."