bem innumeram mentibus ardore quodam infuso cum dimicationum curulium eventu pendentem. haec similiaque memorabile nihil vel serium agi Romae permittunt. VIRIDIS Caligula was so devoted to this colour that he dined in the green stable Suet. Cal. 55. Nero's talk from his boyhood ran chiefly on the circensian games; lamenting among his schoolfellows an accident to a green charioteer, who was dragged on the ground, he was reproved by his paedagogus; on which (Suet. 22) de Hectore se loqui ementitus est. DCass. LXI 6 §§ 1-3. Mart. also cheered the greens XI 33 saepius ad palmam prasinus post fata Neronis | pervenit et victor praemia plura refert. | i nunc, livor edax, dic te cessisse Neroni; | vicit nimirum non Nero, sed prasinus. cf. VI 46. PANNI Plin. ep. IX 6 (see n. on 53) si tamen aut velocitate equorum aut hominum arte traherentur, esset ratio non nulla: nunc favent panno, pannum amant, et si in ipso cursu medioque certamine hic color illuc, ille huc transferatur, studium favorque transibit, et repente agitatores illos, equos illos, quos procul noscitant, quorum clamitant nomina, relinquent. tanta gratia, tanta auctoritas in una vilissima tunica. 199 SI DEFICERET schol. 'si vinceretur prasinus.' 200 CANNARUM IN PULVERE II 155. VII 163 n. x 165 n. Liv. XXII 43 §§ 10 11 Hannibal castra posuerat aversa a Vulurno vento, qui campis torridis siccitate nubes pulveris vehit. I cum ipsis castris percommodum fuit, tum salutare praecipue wat, cum aciem dirigerent, ipsi aversi, terga tantum afflante vento, roccaecatum pulvere offuso hostem pugnaturi, cet. ib. 46 § 9 ntus (Vulturnum incolae regionis vocant) adversus Romanis ortus multo pulvere in ipsa ora volvendo prospectum ademit. In the Roman loss at Cannae see Liv. ib. 49. 50 §§ 1 2 pugna innensis, Aliensi cladi nobilitate par...strage exercitus gravior diorque. 201 CONSULIBUS B.C. 216 L. Aemilius Paullus, who fell in e battle; C. Terentius Varro, who received the thanks of the nate for not having despaired of the state. 202 SPONSIO Mart. XI 1 15 16 cum sponsio fabulaeque sae de Scorpo fuerint et Incitato. Trimalchio's cook, being vited to take his place at table, Petr. 70 fin. continuo Ephetragoedum coepit sponsione provocare, 'si prasinus ximis circensibus primam palmam.' ADSEDISSE cf. Hor. c. IV 1 29 seq. nec opes...nec certare zt. PUELLAE Ov. tr. II 283 284 tollatur circus! non tuta licencirci est: hic sedet ignoto iuncta puella viro. 203-8 let our wrinkled skin drink in spring's warm sun, fly the [cumbrous and formal] toga. Already, though it wants a full hour of noon, you may go to the bath, nor blush for the loss of a day. You could not live thus five days running, for even such delights pall. 'Tis sparing indulgence must give pleasures their zest. 203 BIBAT VERNUM CUTICULA SOLEM VII 105 n. 173 n. Mart. X 12 7 i precor et totos avida cute combibe soles. Pers. IV 18 assiduo curata cuticula sole. ib. 33 si unctus cesses et figas in cute solem. The Romans, esp. the elderly (hence Pers. v 179 aprici senes) and men of leisure (Sen. brev. vit. 13 § persequi singulos longum est, quorum aut latrunculi aut pila aut excoquendi in sole corporis cura consumpsere vitam) walked (Plin. cited 204 n.) or basked (id. ep. III 5 § 10 si quid otii, iacebat in sole. VI 16 § 5 usus ille sole, mox frigida, gustaverat iacens studebatque) in the sun after rubbing their bodies with oil. The process was called insolatio, apricatio, Xiwois, and solaria were appropriated to this use. cula. BIBAT Quintil. XI 3 § 23 fuligo lucubrationum bibenda. CONTRACTA shrunk, Iuv. being about 70 years of age. 204 EFFUGIATQUE TOGAM III 172 n. lunata nusquam pellis, et nusquam toga, thus Mart. (I 49 31) recommends the life in his native Spain. So XII 18 17 ignota est toga. Spart. Hadr. 22 senatores et equites Romanos semper in publico togatos esse iussit, nisi si a cena reverterentur. On public occasions, as in the circus, the toga was full dress Suet. Aug. 40 negotium aedilibus dedit, ne quem posthac paterentur in foro circove nisi positis lacernis togatum consistere. BALNEA III 262 263. VI 419. Artemid. 1 64 elтa dǹ λoúovται μέλλοντες δειπνήσειν· καὶ ἔστι νῦν τὸ βαλανεῖον οὐδὲν ἄλλο ἢ ὁδὸς ἐπὶ τροφήν. The usual time of bathing was the eighth hour Mart. XI 52 3. Plin. ep. III I § 8 ubi hora balnei nuntiata est, est autem hieme nona, aestate octava, in sole, si caret vento, ambulat nudus. Spartian. Hadr. 22 ante octavam horam in publico neminem nisi aegrum lavari passus est. The tenth hour is also named as late Mart. III 36 5. X 70 13. cf. VII 51 II. Some bathed at the sixth hour ib. 48 1-4 nuntiat octavam Phariae sua turba iuvencae | ...temperat haec thermas, nimios prior hora vapores | halat et immodico sexta Nerone calet. Here Iuv. proposes to bathe at once, though it wants a whole hour of noon Iuv. I 49 n. 143 n. 205 FRONTE XIII 242. Pers. V 103 104 exclamet Melicerta perisse frontem de rebus. QUAMQUAM SUPERSIT II 4 5. VI 88. 199. VII 15. X 34 n. XII 25. XIII 172. XV 30; so generally in Tac. SOLIDA HORA Hor. c. I 1 20 partem solido demere de die. See the lexx. 206 QUINQUE DIEBUS Hor. s. I 3 16. 208 VOLUPTATES COMMENDAT RARIOR USUS 'enhances,' 'sets off. Plin. ep. VII 3 §3 tempus est te revisere molestias nostras vel ob hoc solum, ne voluptates istae satietate languescant. IX 36 § 6 quorum mihi agrestes querellae litteras nostras et haec urbana opera commendant. Fuvénal, élevé dans les cris de l'école, soit qu'il fasse au conseil courir les sénateurs, |