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447 A.D. 20, in which year Zosimus seems to have been accensus to Cotta in his consulship (Clinton F. R.). A.D. 32 Cotta is called (Tac. an. vi 7) nobilis quidem, sed egens ob luxum, per flagitia infamis (cf. 5 6. XIII 31 A.D. 58 Nero assigns to Aurelius Cotta, probably a son, a yearly pension, quamvis per luxum avitas opes dissipasset. cf. Plin. 1. c. it is doubtful whether Scipio Metellus a consular or M. Seius a Roman knight first served up the livers of crammed geese: sed, quod constat, Messalinus Cotta, Messallae oratoris filius, palmas pedum ex his torrere atque patinis cum gallinaceorum cristis condire repperit. tribuetur enim a me culinis cuiusque palma cum fide). WILMANNS. By Teuffel in Pauly 12 2169 the consul of A.D. 20 is made grandson of Messalla, and father of Nero's pensioner. Ov. Pont. III 8 3 4 to Cotta dignus es argento, fulvo quoque dignior auro; sed te, cum donas, ista iuvare solent. 23-8, 35 36 where he anticipates the verdict of Iuv. vos etiam seri laudabunt saepe nepotes, | claraque erit scriptis gloria vestra meis. 'I have sometimes wondered why Iuv. never mentions Pliny. He had here an occasion of doing it; and Pliny was certainly a generous, and in some cases a munificent man.' GIFFORD. Pollio is also omitted.

VII 96 UTILE MULTIS as to Archimelos, whose epigram (of 18 verses) on his great ship Hiero rewarded with a thousand medimni of wheat (Ath. 209b); to Choerilos (Hor. ep. 1 1 232—4 Schmid); Tiberius (Suet. 42) gave to Asellius Sabinus 200,000 sesterces for a dialogue, in quo boleti et ficedulae et ostreae et turdi certamen induxerat. Oppian received 20,000 staters from M, Aurelius (Suid. s. v. Sozomen h. e. praef. §§ 5 6 who names other patrons of letters and calls Oppian's patron Severus). GRANGAEUS. ,, 96 97 UTILE MULTIS PALLERE Ov. a. a. i 159 160 fuit utile multis | pulvinum facili composuisse manu. II 642. Luc. I 182 multis utile bellum. Coripp. Iust. Iv 361.

97 PALLERE ind. Hor. ep. 1 19 18 Obbar exsangue cuminum. On the Saturnalia see Macrob. Sat. Lucian Sat. Marquardt StV. I1 562-4. Böttiger kl. Schr. 111 196 seq. Scheiffele in Pauly. Preller-Jordan röm. Myth. 113 15-20. With VINUM TOTO NESCIRE DECEMBRI cf. Stat. s. 1 6 1-8 et Phoebus pater et severa Pallas | et Musae procul ite feriatae:| Iani vos revocabimus kalendis. | Saturnus mihi compede exsoluta | et multo gravidus mero December | et ridens Iocus et sales protervi | adsint, dum refero diem beatam | laeti Caesaris ebriam que noctem. Hor. S. II 7 4 libertate decembri.

,, 99 PETIT HIC PLUS TEMPORIS ATQUE OLEI PLUS P et A perit, rectissime. iocatur poeta de historiarum scriptoribus in passivum vertens quod in omnium ore est, de rebus inutilibus 'perdere oleum et operam.' BEER. Erasmus adagia has an excellent article on 'oleum et operam perdidi,' citing e.g. Cic. Att. 11 17 § 1 haec....non deflebimus, ne et opera et oleum philologiae nostrae perierit. Macrob. Sat. II 29 § 30 on his return from the battle of Actium a raven greeted the conqueror 'ave, Caesar victor imperator.' miratus Caesar officiosam avem viginti milibus nummum emit. The trainer's partner, who had received no share of the purchase-money, urged that another raven should be sent for, which cried, ave, victor imperator Antoni. Caesar, without taking offence, ordered the first dividere donativum cum contubernali. § 31 He bought a parrot and a magpie for the same greeting. A poor cobbler, fired by the example to train a raven ad parem salutationem, would often, drained dry by the cost, cry to the indocile bird opera et impensa periit. At last the bird learnt his lesson perfectly, and said it as Augustus passed by. Satis domi salutatorum talium habeo, said the prince. The bird rejoining

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opera et impensa periit, Caesar with a laugh bought it at a higher price than any of the others. OLEI I 51 n. Venusina digna lucerna.

VII 101 MULTA PAPYRO Suet. vir. ill. 104 p. 133 Reiff. (from Isid. orig. vi 12) quaedam genera librorum certis modulis conficiebantur: breviori forma carmina atque epistulae, at vero historiae maiori modulo scribebantur. On the manufacture of paper see H. Blümner Technologie (as cited below 135) 1 308-325.

102 OPERUM LEX Hor. s. 1 3 62 63 Lucilius ausus | primus in hunc operis componere carmina morem. a. p. 135 unde pedem proferre pudor vetet aut operis lex.

105 GENUS IGNAVUM Ov. am. 1 15 1 2 quid mihi, livor edax, ignavos obicis annos ingeniique vocas carmen inertis opus?

,,,, LECTO Plin. ep. 1 1 § 4 n.

LECTO ET UMBRA Ov. am. 1 9 41 42 ipse ego segnis eram discinctaque in otia natus: mollierant animos lectus et umbra meos. Pauly Iv 844. Marquardt Privatleben 702.

UMBRA 58 n. Friedländer 115 616-7. 626 (uselessness of philo. sophy). Stob. f. 97 17 χειμωνί τ' ἀσκεῖν σῶμα θερμά θ ̓ ἡλίου | τοξεύματ' αἰνεῖν μὴ σκιατροφούμενος.

106 CAUSIDICIS 113 n. 136 n. vI 439 nec causidicus, nec praeco loquetur. Petron. 46 comm. destinavi illum artificii docere, aut tonstreinum aut praeconem aut certe causidicum, quod illi auferre non possit nisi Orcus. CIL VI 9240-2. Mart. cited 31 n.

CIVILIA OFFICIA Sen. rh. contr. II praef. § 3. esp. Sen. tranq.

107 IN FASCE Wyttenb. on Eunap. p. 140.

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LIBELLI Quintil. x 7 § 33 n. id. cited ver. 123.

108 MAGNA SONANT VFl. III 198 vana sonantem.

TUM CUM

probably we should read, as elsewhere, tunc cum (x 26. XIII 40). tunc occurs III 214 bis. vI 122. 235. 607. vII 111. x 89. 267. XII 53.

110 QUI VENIT AD DUBIUM GRANDI CUM CODICE NOMEN Cic. QRosc. § 4 non refert parva nomina in codices? immo omnes summas. § 5 non habere se hoc nomen in codicem accepti et expensi relatum confitetur. see the whole speech.

111 FOLLES Aug. c. D. xiv 24 § 1 pulmones... ad spiritum ducendum ac remittendum vocemque emittendam seu modificandam, sicut folles fabrorum vel organorum, flantis respirantis loquentis clamantis cantantis serviunt voluntati. GRANGAEUS.

112 CONSPUITUR ind. anthol. Pal. XII 229 Boiss. xvi 251. Ath. 294. Petron. 74. O. Jahn archäol. Beiträge 150.

MESSEM Prop. II (II) 16 7 (a praetor has come from Illyricum, maxima praeda tibi) quare, si sapis, oblatas ne desere messes.

113 CAUSIDICORUM 136 n. Mart. vIII 16 pistor qui fueras diu, Cypere, causas nunc agis et ducena quaeris.

114 RUSSATI Theodoret h. e. II 17 § 5 on the factions. Suet. Dom. 7. Galen x 478 Κ οἱ περὶ βαίνετον καὶ πράσινον ἐσπουδακότες ὀσφραίνονται τὰς κόπρους τῶν ἵππων ἕνεκα τοῦ γνῶναι πῶς κατεργάζονται τὰς τροφάς. CIL II 4315. Antonin. 1 § 5 Gataker. Coripp. Iustin. 1 318-329 comm. Orelli 2593-8. 4749. Wilmanns 2599-2603. Inscriptions on the statues of charioteers in the racecourse at Constantinople anth. Pal. xv 41-50. XVI 335-387 comm. Plin. xxxIII § 90 visumque iam est Neronis principis spectaculis harenam circi chrysocolla sterni, cum ipse concolori panno aurigaturus esset. Friedländer 116 286-306. Marquardt StV. III1 484. 490–502. Daremberg dict. des antiq. art. circus. On Nero's

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profuse expenditure on drivers and actors see Plut. Galba 16. Suet. Galba 15. cf. Tac. h. 1 20. infr. 243 n.

VII 115 CONSEDERE a technical term. Aen. vII 169. Iuppiter in state, to receive the embassy of the dogs (Phaedr. Iv 18 22) consedit genitor tum deorum maximus.

AIAX cf. Pacuvius armorum iudicium Ribbeck röm. Trag. 218— 223. trag. Rom. fr.2 pp. 80-82. Welcker d. ep. Cyclus ir 1381. Accius armorum iudicium G. Hermann opusc. vII 365 seqq. Ribbeck röm. Trag. 368 -376, trag. Rom. fr.2 pp. 154-157. A line and a half remain of an armorum iudicium of Pomponius (L. P. Bononiensis?) an Atellana according to Ribbeck com. Rom. fr. 2 p. 228. Aeschylus ὅπλων κρίσις (Welcker d. Aesch. Tril. 438. Nauck trag. gr. fr. pp. 43 44) one of 8 tragedies taken from the Little Iliad of Lesches (Aristot. poet. 23 p. 1459b 5. Welcker ep. Cyclus II 237). See too Qu. Smyrn. posthomer. v. Liban. or. Iv 1038.

116 117 BUBULCO IUDICE Sen. ep. 40 § 8 quemadmodum enim iudex subsequi poterit, aliquando etiam imperitus ac rudis? Quintil. xi 1 § 45 militarem ac rusticum iudicem. Cic. Att. vi 1 § 15 f. Graeci vero exsultant, quod peregrinis iudicibus utuntur. 'Nugatoribus quidem' inquies. Quid refert?...vestri enim, credo, graves habent Turpionem sutorium et Vettium mancipem.

117 RUMPE IECUR Obbar on Hor. ep. 1 19 15.

118 SCALARUM GLORIA PALMAE etym. magn. 112 13 avrηvous (i.e. ἀντηΛίους) τοὺς τῆς δάφνης ὅρπηκας τοὺς πρὸ τῶν θυρῶν ἱσταμένους. Tert. de an. 1 of Socrates nihil mirandum, si et in carcere inviscatas Anyti et Meliti palmas gestiens infringere ipsa morte coram immortalitatem vindicat animae. Casaubon on Suet. Dom. 23 first explained this verse correctly. In the Gr. Lat. conversations (Haupt opusc. II 445 1-5) the Lat. runs: laudem scripsi.-Cuius ?--Iovis Capitolini.-Lege. magne dixisti. tolle

coronam.

119 VOCIS PRETIUM Mart. cited on ver. 31. On barristers' fees see Quintil. XII § 8 seq. Friedländer cites Labbe gl. II p. 427 where the modest sum of 100 denarii satisfies the claims of all the lawyers: aywuev ἡμεῖς πρὸς τὸν τραπεζίτην, λάβωμεν παρ' αὐτοῦ δηνάρια ἑκατόν· δῶμεν τῷ δικολόγῳ (the causidicus)...καὶ τοῖς συνηγόροις (in the Lat. advocatis) καὶ τῷ Voμik (the pragmaticus, in the Lat. iuris perito), iva σnovdaιóтepov ÈKδικήσωσιν ἡμᾶς.

120 PELAMYDUM IV 42 n. Varro уvɩ σεavrov (fr. 209 Bücheler) in Non. 49 14 non animadvertis cetarios, cum videre volunt in mari thunnos, escendere in malum alte, ut penitus per aquam perspiciant pisces? Nissen ital. Landeskunde 1 (Berlin 1883) 110 111.

,,,, MAURORUM EPIMENIA BULBI Ov. rem. 797-8 Daunius an Libycis bulbus tibi missus ab oris, | an veniat Megaris, noxius omnis erit. The edible Boxẞós from Africa, which we eat, known to all (Dioscor. II 200. Plin. XIX § 95. other kinds §§ 93-97. xx §§ 102-6). cf. Oribas. II 22 where Daremberg renders 'vaccet,' a word unknown to Littré. Ath. 63d64 (64b the 'royal' best; next the red, the white and African σкλλwde‹s; the Egyptian worst of all). Theophr. h. pl. vII 13. Paul. Aegin. 1 76, vII 3, where Adams (1 118, III 73) takes it to be a species of onion; not, as Sibthorp and Sprengel, of musk hyacinth. edict. Diocl. vI 41 bulbi Afri sibae [sive] Fasiani maximi numero viginti, denarii duodecim; 40 smaller ones are rated at the same price. 'Le nom de bulbus s'applique aux oignons d'une foule de plantes bulbeuses, parmi lesquelles il serait difficile de choisir. Leake [and Sibthorp flora Gr. 1 238] fait observer qu'on

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VII 120mange en Grèce l'oignon de l'hyacinthus comosus, et qu'on le nomme BolBós ou Bopßós' (Waddington). At a frugal board Plin. ep. 1 15 § 2. Verg. moret. 96. Theokr. xIV 17. Part of the payment in kind to a pleader Mart. IV 46 10. Stat. s. IV 9 29 30 non replictae | bulborum tunicae?

VII 120 EPIMENIA Epikt. II 7 § 8 a lady, dispatching Tò πλoîov TŵV ÈTIunviwv to Gratilla in exile, was warned that Domitian would seize it: 'Better,' she replied, 'that he should seize it, than that I should fail to send it.' see also Rönsch in Ztschr. f. oest. Gymn. 1880 818. Boniface (p. 36 Jaffé) has the form -a -ae.

121 VINUM, QUINQUE LAGONAE for the apposition Britannicus cites Plaut. Ps. 1205-6 nisi mi argentum redditur, | viginti minae.

Plin. XIV § 95 ne quis vinum Graecum Amineumque octonis aeris singula quadrantalia venderet. add exc. Vales. (ad calc. Amm.) § 73 vinum triginta amphoras. The German ein Glas Bier' cet. is different, for 'Bier, Wein, Fleisch' cet. with weights and measures are mutilated genitives (Heyse, Lehrb. d. deutschen Sprache, 115 186-7, 473).

122 SI CONTIGIT AUREUS UNUS Daremberg dict. des ant. aureus. dig. L 13 1 § 12 si cui cautum est honorarium vel si quis de lite pactus est, videamus, an petere possit. et quidem de pactis ita est rescriptum ab imperatore nostro et divo patre eius: litis causa malo more pecuniam tibi promissam ipse quoque profiteris. sed hoc ita ius est, si suspensa lite societatem futuri emolumenti cautio pollicetur. si vero post causam actam cauta est honoraria summa, peti poterit usque ad probabilem quantitatem, etsi nomine palmarii cautum sit: sic tamen, ut computetur id quod datum est cum eo quod debetur neutrumque compositum licitam quantitatem excedat.' licita autem quantitas intellegitur pro singulis causis usque ad centum aureos.

8 § 5 pessimae vero consuetudinis, libellis esse contentum, quos componit aut litigator, qui confugit ad patronum, quia liti ipse non sufficit, aut aliquis ex eo genere advocatorum, qui se non posse agere confitentur; deinde faciunt id quod est in agendo difficillimum cet. voμikós Friedländer 15 292, 297.

124 Plin. ep. v 4. 9 (21). 13 §§ 6-10.

125 seq. see the contemptuous description of DChrys. or. 4 (1 1534 R). Luc. fugit. 10 Philosophy describes sophists as a species of Hippokentaurs, σύνθετόν τι καὶ μικτὸν ἐν μέσῳ ἀλαζονείας καὶ φιλοσοφίας πλαζόμενον.

126 QUADRIIUGES Müller Handb. d. Archäol. § 199 4. Philo leg. ad Gaium 20 (11 565 M) to spite the Jews the Alexandrians set up in the largest and most famous proseucha an image of Gaius ȧvdpiávтA XAλKOÛV ἐποχούμενον τεθρίππῳ.

,,,, VESTIBULIS Aen. vII 177. 181-6. Prop. 1 16 1-3 quae fueram magnis olim patefacta triumphis, | ianua..., | cuius inaurati celebrarunt limina currus. Tac. XI 35 in vestibulo effigiem patris Silii consulto senatus abolitam demonstrat. Suet. Nero 31 of the golden house: vestibulum eius fuit, in quo colossus cxx pedum staret ipsius effigie. Marquardt Privatleben 220.

127 BELLATORE 'charger' with equus (Verg. Ov. VFl. in lexx.); bellicus equus (Prop.).

129 CONTURBAT bankruptcy III 180-3. XI 46–53.

EST Tac. d. 9 (cited p. 282 fin.).

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130 RHINOCEROTE Sil. I 25 secto tauro. Longus III 15 Týρav

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Nápov. Toup on schol. Theokr. p. 109. Ruhnken Timae. s. v. Tηv ἀλωπεκήν. Schneider on Plat. rep. I p. 136 λέων. lexx. πάρδαλις.

VII 131 Lucian cited 1 46.

matutinum ferre patique lutum.

LUTULENTA Mart. XII 26 8 the client forced

133 MURRINA ind. Marquardt Privatl. 743-5.

134 STLATTARIA see esp. Heinrich on schol. (vol. 1 396—9).

135 136 PURPURA VENDIT CAUSIDICUм III 283 n. Cic. Att. xIII 12 § 2 Ligarianam praeclare vendidisti: posthac, quidquid scripsero, tibi praeconium deferam. p. Quinct. § 19 cum auctionem venderet. Prop. 1 2 1 4 quid iuvat ornato procedere, vita, capillo |...teque peregrinis vendere muneribus? Petron. 119 34 35 Lucrinis eruta litoribus vendunt conchylia cenas. Ambr. off. 11 § 76 ambitu vestium captantes petitionis suffragium. Luc. adv. indoct. 29 compares the ignorant who seeks a reputation for learning by amassing books to the quack who courts practice by his instruments of ivory, silver and gold. A causidicus (113 n. 1 32) in a Swiss inscription Wilmanns 2472. On the manufacture of purple see H. Blümner Technologie...der Gewerbe u. Künste bei Griechen und Römern (Leipzig 1875) 1 224-240. A dandy flute-player in Phaedr. v 7 36-8; a dandy harper defeated by a master of the craft, whose crown and clothes together would be dear at 10 drachmae (Luc. adv. indoct. 8-10). Qualifications of a rhetor (Luc. rhet. praec. 15) kal ἐσθὴς δὲ ἔστω εὐανθὴς καὶ λευκὴ ἔργον τῆς Ταραντίνης ἐργασίας, ὡς διαφαίνεσθαι τὸ σῶμα, καὶ ἡ κρηπὶς ̓Αττικὴ καὶ γυναικεία, τὸ πολυσχιδές, ἡ ἐμβὰς Σικυωνία πίλοις τοῖς λεύκοις ἐπιπρέπουσα, καὶ ἀκόλουθοι πολλοὶ καὶ βιβλίον ἀεί. See lexx. vendito, vendo. Tac. d. 6 of the pleader: iam vero qui togatorum comitatus et egressus! quae in publico species!

137 FACIE MAIORIS VIVERE CENSUS see Gesner and Mühlmann facies. Sen. n. q. Iv 2 § 8 in faciem lati ac turbidi maris stagnat. Sil. x 390 heu rebus facies inhonora sinistris. Quintil. VIII 5 § 22 (inventiunculae) facie ingenii blandiuntur. Shakespeare 'the outward face of royalty.' 139 140 CICERONI NEMO DUCENTOS NUNC DEDERIT NUMMOS Mart. VIII 16 2 causas nunc agis et ducena quaeris.

140 ANULUS INGENS Galen de praenotione 1 (XIV 599 K) those who aim at success, not only in medicine but in all arts, flatter the rich, attend their levées, escort them through the streets; and not only so, but also τῇ τῶν ἱματίων καὶ δακτυλίων πολυτελείᾳ καὶ τῷ πλήθει τῶν ἀκολουθούντων καὶ σκευῶν ἀργυρῶν παρασκευῇ τοὺς ἰδιώτας ἀναπείθουσιν, ὡς ἀξιοζή λωτοί τινες ὄντες. STANLEY. display of rings by fashionable musicians Plin. xxxvII §§ 6 7 HENNINIUS.

servos.

141 SERVI Hor. s. 1 3 11 12 habebat saepe ducentos, | saepe decem

142 SELLA Mart. Ix 22 10 et mea sit culto sella cliente frequens. TOGATI Mart. II 74 cited on 131.

143 ANTE PEDES Mart. 11 74 cinctum togatis post et ante Saufeium | quanta reduci Regulus solet turba, | ad alta tonsum templa cum reum misit, | Materne, cernis? invidere nolito. | hos illi amicos et greges togatorum | Fuficulenus praestat et Faventinus (money-lenders). XII 87 1-3 bis Cotta soleas perdidisse se questus, | dum neglegentem ducit ad pedes vernam, | qui solus inopi restat et facit turbam. Sidon. ep. 1 9 (=9 p. 196-7 Baret) duo fastigatissimi consulares.... utrumque quidem, si jors laribus egrediebantur, artabat clientium praevia pedisequa circumjusa populositas. Agroecius (cited by Rigault) de orthogr. (Keil gramm. VII 125 3) circum pedes sunt officia servorum, ante pedes amicorum: Iuvenalis togati ante pedes. CONDUCTA ad Herenn, cited 40 n.