The works of Horace : with English notes, critical and ... - Cristo Raul

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EXPLANATORY NOTES. BOOK I., SATIRE I. 429
restore thee to health."—84. Non uxor seUvum tc vult, &c. The indignant
reply of the poet.—85. Pueri atque paella. " The very children in the
streets."—86. Poet omnia ponaa, A tmesis {or posiponas omnia.—88. An
sic cognatosi &:c. " Or dost thou purpose, by such a coarse of conduct as
this, to retain those relations whom nature of her own accord gives thee,
and to keep them thy friends T" i. e., dost thou fancy to thyself that thy
relations will continue to love thee, when all thy affections are centred in
thy gold ?—90. Infdix. The vocative.—94. Parto quod avebas. "What
thou didst desire being now obtained." Understand eo.—95. Qui, tarn,
&c. " Who, (the story is not long), so rich that he measured his money."
We have given qui, tarn, with Bentley. The common text has quidam.
— 97. Ad usque supremum tempus. " To the very last moment of his
life."—100. Fortissima Tyndaridarum. " Bravest of the children of Tyn-
darus," i. e., a second Clytemhestra. The poet likens the freed-woman to
Clytemnestra, who slew her husband Agamemnon, and, in so doing, proved
herself, as he ironically expresses it, the bravest of the Tyndarida. This
term, Tyndcuridce, though of the masculine gender, includes the children
of Tyndams of both sexes.
101-106. 101. Q/uid mi igitur suades, &c. " What, then, dost thou advise
me to do 1 To live like Meenius, or in the way that Nomentanns
does 1" Mienins and Nomentanus appear to have been two dissipated
prodigals of the day, and the miser, in whose eyes any, even the most
trifling expenditure, seems chargeable with extravagance, imagines, with
characteristic spirit, that the poet wishes him to turn spendthrift at once.
The scholiast says that Nomentanus spent 700,000 sesterces on his table
andvpleasures.—102. Pergis pugnantia secum, &c. We have here the
poet's reply, " Art than going to unite things that are plainly repugnant 1"
Literally, " things that contend together with opposing fronts." A metaphor
taken from the combats of animals, particularly of rams.— ^103, Non
ego, avarum, &c. " When I bid thee cease to be a miser, I do not order
thee to became a spendthrift and a prodigal." Vappa properly denotes
palled or insipid wine : it is thence figuratively applied to one whose extravagance
and debaucheries have rendered him good for nothing. The
origin of the term nebulo is disputed.—'105. Eit inter Tanain quiddam,
&c. " There is some difference, certainly, between Tanais and the fatherin-law
of Visellns." The poet offers the example of two men, as much
unlike as the miser is to the prodigal. Compare the remark of Doring
" Tanais, M