[84] We have a similar account of the accommodation of these vagabond Israelites, in the Sixth Satire, where the prophetic Jewess plies her customers: ----_cophino, fænoque relicto._ Her goods a basket, and old hay her bed; She strolls, and telling fortunes, gains her bread.--EDITOR. [85] Dædalus, in his flight from Crete, alighted at Cumæ. [86] Lachesis is one of the three destinies, whose office was to spin the life of every man; as it was of Clotho to hold the distaff, and Atropos to cut the thread. [87] Arturius means any debauched wicked fellow, who gains by the times. [88] In a prize of sword-players, when one of the fencers had the other at his mercy, the vanquished party implored the clemency of the spectators. If they thought he deserved it not, they held up their thumbs, and bent them backwards in sign of death. [89] Verres, præter in Sicily, contemporary with Cicero, by whom accused of oppressing the province, he was condemned: his name is used here for any rich vicious man. [90] Tagus, a famous river in Spain, which discharges itself into the ocean near Lisbon, in Portugal. It was held of old to be full of golden sands. [91] Orontes, the greatest river of Syria. The poet here puts the river for the inhabitants of Syria. [92] Romulus was the first king of Rome, and son of Mars, as the poets feign. The first Romans were herdsmen. [93] Athens, of which Pallas, the Goddess of Arms and Arts, was patroness. [94] Antiochus and Stratocles, two famous Grecian mimics, or actors, in the poet's time. [95] Publius Egnatius, a stoick, falsely accused Bareas Soranus, as Tacitus tells us. [96] Grecians living in Rome. [97] Lucius Metellus, the high priest, who, when the temple of Vesta was on fire, saved the Palladium. [98] Roscius, a tribune, ordered the distinction of places at public shows, betwixt the noblemen of Rome and the plebeians. [99] Alluding to the secession of the Plebeians to the Mons Sacer, or Sacred Hill, as it was called, when they were persecuted by the aristocracy. This very extraordinary resignation of their faculty, on the part of the common people, was not singular in the Roman history. It argues a much more inconsiderable population than the ancient writers would have us believe. EDITOR. [100] The meaning is, that men in some parts of Italy never wore a gown, the usual habit of the Romans, till they were buried in one. [101] Any wealthy man. [102] The Romans used to breed their tame pigeons in their garrets. [103] Codrus, a learned man, very poor: by his books, supposed to be a poet; for, in all probability, the heroic verses here mentioned, which rats and mice devoured, were Homer's works. [104] Herbs, roots, fruits, and sallads.