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EXPLANATORY NOTES. BOOK II., SATIEE IV 516
fiirmer powers." Supply stomachus, not potor, as some insist. The alla-
sion is to the effect of salt food on a languid stomach, in exciting; a relish
and rousing it to iresh exertion. Hillis. The term hilla properly denotes
the intestines of animals, and is a diminutive from hira. Our sausages
are clearly meant.—61. Q,uin omnia malif, &c. According to Catiua, a
languid stomach will prefer any thing to lettuce, even the dishes brought
from dirty cook-shops.—62. Perveni allata. Far afferantur ferventia
"Are brought hot and steaming."
63-69. 63. DupUcis juris. " Of the two kinds of sauce." Catins first
speaks of the jus simplex^ down to the end of verse 66. He then proceeds
to state how this maybe converted into the j'u< dvjilex.—64. Dulci.
" Fresh." Equivalent here to recenfe, and opposed to ranoido.—65. Pinguimero.
"With old rich wine." The epithet ^mg^te seems to allude
to that oily appearance and taste which the more generous wines acquire
by age.—66. Quam qua Byzantia putuit orca. " Than that with which
the Byzantine jar has been tainted." The allusion is to the Byzantine
pickle made of the tunny-fish, which were taken in large numbers near
that city. This is pronounced by Catius to be the best, and the term
putuit, as used in the text, will serve to give us some idea of its pungent
odor. Orca. A large vessel or jar, round below, and having a narrow
neck. Compare the Greek 5pKTi and Spxa.—67. Hoc uH confusum sectit,
&c. " When this, after herbs out small have been mixed in, has been
made to boil, and has then stood to cool for a time, sprinkled over with
Corycian saffron." Stetit here refers to the placing of the sauce apart
&om the fire, but also, and in a more particMar sense, to the thickening
or concretion which results from the process of cooling.—68. Corycio.
The Corycian saQVon was produced in the vicinity of Corycns, a town on
the coast of Cilicia Campestris, southeast of Seleucia Trachea. It was
considered of the best quality.—69. Pressa Venafrana quod bacea, &o.
The oil of Venafrum was celebrated for its excellence. Venafrum was
the last city of Campania to the north. It was situate near the River Vultumns,
and on the Latin Way. Remisit. "Yields." The aorist, in the
sense of what is accustomed to take place.
70-77. 70. Picenis pomis. Consult note on Sat. ii., 3, SV2. Catius now
passes to the second course, consisting of fhiits, &.C.— Tiburtia. The apples
of Tibur are meant.;—71. Venucnla convenit ollis. " The Venucula
is proper for preserving in jars." The allusion here is to a particular spe-
cies of grape, of which nothing definite is known at the present day. It
was kept in jars, much in the manner of the grapes that come from Spain
at the present day. The Alban grape, on the other hand, was kept by
being hung up where the smoke would have access to it. Orelli observes
that the Italians still fumigate chestnuts.— ^72. Duraveris. In the sense
of servaveris. The Alban grape would not seem to have been any of the
\je§t;, ^73, Hanc ego cum malis, &c. " I am found to have been the first
that placed here and there on table, in clean little dishes, this kind of
grape along with apples : I am found to have been the first that served
up in this way a sauce composed of burned tartar and fish-pickle ; I, too,
am found to have been the first that presented thus to my guests white
pepper sprinkled over with black salt." The phrase puris cinumposuisse
eatillis has been necessarily rendered with some freedom in the two lat-