^{Page 12 note 1} i. 4. 8 Lasciva est nobis pagina, vita proba.

^{Page 12 note 2} Literally: ‘for an uncia in every as’; i.e. a twelfth.

^{Page 13 note 1} Cf. x. 103. 7 for a similar computation. But he eschews mere ‘trick’ poetry, writing of its composition (ii. 86. 9, 10): Turpe est difficiles habere nugas, Et stultus labor est ineptiarum.

^{Page 13 note 2} calva = a bald scalp; the verb semitare = ‘to lay out in paths’ is not given in Lewis and Short.

^{Page 14 note 1} For this use of suspendo and pendeo cf. ii. 14. 9 ‘centum pendentia tecta columnis’, ‘a roof poised on a hundred columns’.

^{Page 14 note 2} Dickens, , Old Curiosity ShopGoogle Scholar, ch. 42: The delight of picking up the money—the bright, shining yellow boys.

^{Page 15 note 1} For latus = comrade cf. vi. 65. 4 dulce latus. It is only fair to add that some scholars have regarded these lines as corrupt.

^{Page 15 note 2} Cf. xii. 94. 4, and Juv. xv. 30 (used = tragedy).

^{Page 16 note 1} At viii. 50. 10 recta is used in this meaning without the ‘cena’: ‘promissa est nobis sportula, recta data est’, ‘a dole was promised, a feast given’.

^{Page 16 note 2} So as early as Horace: ‘quamquam Socraticis madet sermonibus’ (Odes iii. 21. 9, 10), ‘though he is steeped in Socratic lore’.

^{Page 16 note 3} ‘Arca flagellat opes’ occurs again at v. 13. 6. What does flagellat mean? L. and S. say ‘enclose’. But it is a very odd metaphor. Statius' ‘Non tibi sepositas infelix strangulat arca Divitias’ (ii. 2. 150) is intelligible. Pace Friedländer, Persius’ ‘puteal … flagellas’ (iv. 49) throws no light.

^{Page 16 note 4} In poetry of the Golden Age this would be adeo: ‘tres adeo… soles’ (Virg. Aen. 3. 203, ‘quinque adeo… urbes’ (ib. 7. 629).

^{Page 16 note 5} Or. 18. 59.

^{Page 17 note 1} Cf. vii. 78. 4 ‘habes nec cor, Papile, nec genium’, where genius seems to mean ‘taste’ or ‘a right sense of values’.