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Footnote 1: A proverb for a nobody, as Petron, 58: qui te natum non putat.

Footnote 2: "Augurinus" unknown. Baba: see Sep. Ep. 159, a fool.

Footnote 3: Reference unknown.

Footnote 4: A Gallic slave, appointed by Augustus Procurator of Gallia Lugudunensis, when he made himself notorious by his extortions. See Dion Cass. liv, 21.

Footnote 5: A proverb, found also in Herondas iii, 76: apparently fairy-land, the land of Nowhere.

Footnote 6: Perhaps alluding to a mock marriage of Silius and Messalina.

Footnote 7: Again [Greek: morou] for [Greek: theou] as in ch. 6.

Footnote 8: Proverb: meaning unknown.

Footnote 9: Perhaps an allusion to the shortening of the consul's term, which was done to give more candidates a chance of the honour.

Footnote 10: Il., iii, 109; alluding here to Janus's double face.

Footnote 11: The speech seems to contain a parody of Augustus's style and sayings.

Footnote 12: M. Valerius Messala Corvinus, appointed prÆfectus urbi, resigned within a week.

Footnote 13: A proverb, like "Charity begins at home." The reading of the passage is uncertain; "sister" is only a conjecture, and it is hard to see why his sister should be mentioned.

Footnote 14: Some formula such as ais esse meum.

Footnote 15: Catullus iii, 12.

Footnote 16: Talthybius was a herald, and nuntius is obviously a gloss on this. He means Mercury.

Footnote 17: By the Cloaca?

Footnote 18: With a slight change, a cry used in the worship of Osiris.

Footnote 19: A proverbial line.




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