These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth: What, hast thou got an ulcer in thy mouth? Why stand'st thou picking? Is thy palate sore, That bete and radishes will make thee roar? Such is the unequal temper of thy mind, Thy passions in extremes, and unconfined; Thy hair so bristles with unmanly fears, As fields of corn, that rise in bearded ears; And when thy cheeks with flushing fury glow, } The rage of boiling cauldrons is more slow, } When fed with fuel and with flames below. } With foam upon thy lips and sparkling eyes, Thou say'st, and dost, in such outrageous wise, That mad Orestes,[218] if he saw the show, Would swear thou wert the madder of the two. FOOTNOTES: [206] Note I. [207] Note II. [208] Note III. [209] Note IV. [210] Note V. [211] Note VI. [212] Note VII. [213] Note VIII. [214] Note IX. [215] Two learned physicians of the period. Dryden mentions Guibbons more than once, as a friend. [216] Note X. [217] Note XI. [218] Note XII. NOTES ON TRANSLATIONS FROM PERSIUS. SATIRE III. Note I. _And parchment with the smoother side displayed._--P. 231. The students used to write their notes on parchments; the inside, on which they wrote, was white; the other side was hairy, and commonly yellow. Quintilian reproves this custom, and advises rather table-books, lined with wax, and a stile, like that we use in our vellum table-books, as more easy. Note II. _A fuming-pan thy Lares to appease._--P. 232. Before eating, it was customary to cut off some part of the meat, which was first put into a pan, or little dish, then into the fire, as an offering to the household gods: this they called a Libation. Note III. _Drawn from the root of some old Tuscan tree._--P. 232. The Tuscans were accounted of most ancient nobility. Horace observes this in most of his compliments to Mæcenas, who was derived from the old kings of Tuscany; now the dominion of the Great Duke. Note IV. _Who, clad in purple, canst thy censor greet._--P. 232. The Roman knights, attired in the robe called _trabea_, were summoned by the censor to appear before him, and to salute him in passing by, as their names were called over. They led their horses in their hand. See more of this in Pompey's Life, written by Plutarch. Note V. _Sicilian tortures, and the brazen bull._--P. 233. Some of the Sicilian kings were so great tyrants, that the name is become proverbial. The brazen bull is a known story of Phalaris, one of those tyrants, who, when Perillus, a famous artist, had presented him with a bull of that metal hollowed within, which, when the condemned person was inclosed in it, would render the sound of a bull's roaring, caused the workman to make the first experiment,--_docuitque suum mugire juvencum_. Note VI.