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

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516 EXPLANATORY NOTES. BOOK II,, SATIKE IV.
ter claoses of this Bentence, in order to suit better the idiom of oar own
tongue. The poet happily expresses, by the repetiticm of the personal
proDonn and of the adjective _pWm««, the earnest air with which the merit
of these several important discoveries is claimed. Feecem. The "gebrainnter
"Weinstein" of the German commentators. Faex is here equivalent
tofaex iista. It was added as a condiment to the allec. Tartar is
an acid concrete salt, formed from wines completely fermented, and adhering
to the side of the casks in the form of a hard crast. It is white or
red, the white being most esteemed, as containing less dross (h* earthy
parts. The best comes from Germany, and is the tartar of the Rhenish
wine. Allec. This was a kind oicaoiaret being the imperfect garum of
the scombri.—74. Piper album. This was said to be milder than the piper
mgrv/m.—rSale nigra. It was considered the strongest kind.—75* lucreturn.
This term properly denotes " sprinkled over through a sieve."—
Circumposvdsse. We must not imagine, with some commentators, that
the catUli were served up, one to each gnest^ but that they were placed
here vcaA. there [drcum-] on the table, after the manner of the modem aesietfes.—
^76. Immune est vitiumj dare mUlia tema Toacello, &c. Gatius
calls it a monstrous folly not to know how to make an entertainment,
after having gone to an immense expense at the shambles in the purchase
of provisions. To purchase, for example, fish of the most costly
kind, and then serve them up in small and narrow dishes where they have
to lie piled one upon another. With mUlia tema supply sesterti^m.—
77. Vagos. Applying to the fish as accustomed to move freely about ia
their native element. The epithet is contrasted in a very pleasing man
ner with angusto..
78-81. 78. Magna movet siomacho fostidia, ^c. Some general pre-
cepts are now given respecting cleanliness and elegance at entertainments.—
Unctis manibuSf d/um furta ligurrit, "With fingers made
greasy w^hile he hastily devours the stolen fragments .of the feasti"—
80. Sive gratis veteri crateree limus adfussit. " Or if a thick scurf has
adhered to the old mixer." Crat&rai* The cratera {Kparqp), or mixer,
was the vessel in which the wine and water were mixed.^81. Scopis.
For cleansing the pavement of the banqueting-room. Scohe. "Saw
dust." Used, as sand with us, when the pavements were swept in the
banqueting-rooms, and serving to dry np any moisture that might be upon
them. Scobs is, in fact, a very extensive term, and denotes, in general}
any powder or dust produced by filing, sawing, or boring, though in the
present passage its meaning is limited.
quam pa/rvusj or quantulus*
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