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

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EXPLANATOEY NOTES.—BOOK II., SATIRE VI. 527
65-87. 65. O nodes cmucque deum ! " All 1 nights and refectioDS of
the gods !" Equivalent to nodes coenceqiie deis dignts. They went late to
dinner and sat late. Meique. Understand/omJKares or amid.—66. Antt
larvn proprium. "Before my own hearth." Analogous, in one sense, to
our modem phrase, "by my own fireside." It would appear that people
in the country used to dine and sit, especially in cold weather, in the
atrium, by the hearth of which was placed the family lar.— Vemas pro-
caces. "My saucy house-slaves." Those slaves who were bom in their
master's house were called vema, and were more forward and pert than
others, because they were commonly more indulged.—67. Libatis dapibus.
"From the dishes off which we have supped." Libatis is here
used in the sense of degustatis or adesis.—Prout. To be prononnced as
amonosyllable.—68. Inmquales. "Of different sizes," i. e., either large or
small, as might suit the guest.—69. Legibus insanis. Alluding to the laws
which the master of the feast, or symposiarch, at the ancient entertainments,
was aecustomed to impose on the guests, and in conformity with
which, they were compelled to drink equal quantities of liquor, and out
of cups of an equal size. Sen quis capit acriafortis pocula. " Whether
one of a strong head chooses brimming bumpers." The expression acrici
pocula is intended to denote such* cups as best suit hard drinkers, acres
potores. — 70. Uvescit. " Grows mellow ."^
12. Lepos. The name of a
celebrated dancer of the day, and in high favor with Augustus. He de-
rived his name, according to the scholiast, from his graceful dancing, a
lepide saltando.— 73. Agitamus. "We discuss."—75. Vsus redumne.
"Utility or virtue." The former of these indicates the Epicurean doc-
trine, the latter the Stoic.—76. Qua sit natura boni, &c. " What is the
nature of good, and what its perfection."—77. Garrit anilesexrefabellas.
" Prates away old wives' tales adapted to the subject in hand." The expression
anUes fabellas mast be here taken without the least intermixture
of irony.—78. Arelli. Arellius would seem to have been some wealthy
individual in the neighborhood, faU of anxious care (the curse that gener-
ally accompanies wealth) respecting the safe possession of his treasures.
The whole moral of the story which is here introduced turns upon the disquiet
and solicitude that are so often the companions of riches.—79. Olim.
" Once upon a time."—80. Rusticus urbanum murem mus, &o. The beau-
tiful effect produced by the antithetical collocation of the words in this line
is deserving of all praise. It is repeated in the succeeding one. Paupere
cava. "In his poor hole."—82. Asper. "Frugal." Ut tamen arctum,
&c. "Yet so as to open, at times, in acts of hospitality, his bosom, closely
attentive otherwise to his narrow circumstances.'' Ut tamen is equivalent
to ita tamen ut, and arctum animum, as Boring well explains it, to
animum arctis rebus intentmn.—83. Quid multa ? " To cut short a long
story." Neque Hie inmdit. " He neither grudged him," i. e., he spread
plentifully before him. Sepositi. "Hoarded."— 86. Fastidia. "The
daintiness."—87. Tangentis male. " Who scarcely deigned to touch."
88-109. 88. Pater ipse domus. " The good man of the house himself."
The country mouse'is thus pleasantly styled, as the entertainer of the city
mouse. Palea in homa. " On fresh straw," i. e., just collected in thi«
year's harvest.—89. Esset ador loliumque. "Kept eating wheat and
darneL" By ador, strictly speaking, is here meant a species of grain, of
the genus Triticum, called by the Germans "Dinkel," "Soelz," and by
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