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

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EXPLANATORY NOTES, BOOK II., SATIRE HI. 503
opposition to fuUura.—155. Hoe ptUanarmm oryza. " This ptisane of
ricei" i. e., rice gruel. Ptisanum was barley or rice imhasked and sodden
in water.
160-166. 160. Cur, Stoice. Stertinius here pnts the qnestion to him-
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self) and immediately snbjoins the answer, following, as Keightley remarks,
the usual dramatic mode of the Stoics.—161. Non est cardiacus*
" Has nothing the matter with his stomach." The cardiacus morbus is a
disorder attended with weakness and pain of the stomach, debility of
body, great sweatings, &c. Crat&rum. Craterus was a physician, of
whom Cicero speaks in a flattering manner in his correspondence with
Attious (Ep. ad Alt., 12, 13, and 14).—162. Negabit. Scil. Craterus.
163. Quod latus aut renes, &c. This verse occurs again in Epiit. 1,, 6,
28. Tentantur. "Are attacked." The MSS. are divided, many of them
reading tententur, which 'would be the proper term if we suppose him to
be repeating the words of the doctor. (Keightley, ad loc.)—164. ^quis.
In the sense of Projntiis.—165. Porcum. As all the good and bad aceidents
that happened in families were generally attributed to the housenold
deities, Stertinius advises the man who by the favor of these gods is
neither peijured nor a miser, gratefully to sacrifice a hog to them, which
was their usual oblation.—166. Naviget Antieyram, Compare note on
verse 83. ^he expression naviget AnMcyram (or Anticyras) is one of a
proverbial character, and equivalent to " insanus est."—Barathro. " On
the greedy and all-devouring gulf of the populace." The populace, con-
stantly demanding new gratifications from the candidates for their favor,
and never satiated, are here forcibly compared to a deep pit or gulf, into
which many things may be thrown, and yet no perceptible diminution in
depth present itself.
169-171. 169. Dives arttiquo censu. " Kich according to the estimate
of former times," i. e., who iu the earlier and simpler periods of the Boman
state, when riches were less abundant, would have been regarded
as a wealthy man. Divisse. Contracted from divisisse.— 171. Tolas
mieesque. "Thy tali and nuts," ». e., thy playthings. The tali here
meant were a kind of hones, with which children used to play, by throwing
them up and catching them on the back or the palm of the hand. Consult
Diet. Antiq., s. v. Tali.—Nuces. Walnuts are supposed to be meant,
with which probably they played at what was called Par impar, "Even
or odd." Compare verse 248.
172-186. 172. Sinu laxo. " In the bosom of thy gown left carelessly
open." Aulus carried about his playthings in the bosom or sinus of his
prtsiexta, which he allowed to hang in a loose and careless manner about
him. The anxious father saw in this, and in what immediately follows
(donare et ludere), the seeds, as he feared, of prodigality in after-life. Donare
et ludere. " Give them away to others, and lose them at play."
173. Tristem. " With an anxious brow."—174. Vesania diseors. " Different
kinds of madness," i. e., the father feared lest Anlus should become
a prodigal, and Tiberius a miser.—175. Nomentanmn. Consult note on
Sof.i., 1,101. Cicutam. Compare note on verse 69. IIB. Coercet. "As-
signs as a limit," i. e., deems sufficient. What is sufficient to answer all
the demands of nature.—180 .^diUs, fueritve vestrum prator. The of
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