[696] _Difficile_, i. e., "non dubitant." Vid. Schol. Not that they "have _no difficulty_" in raising the money, as Crepereius Pollio found. Cf. ix., 5.
[697] _Oppositis._ "Ager oppositus est pignori ob decem minas." Ter., Phorm., IV., iii., 56.
[698] _Fractâ._ "Broken, that the features may not be recognized:" alluding probably to some well-known transaction of the time.
[699] _Quadringentis._ Cf. Suet., Vit., 13, "Nec cuiquam minus singuli apparatus quadringentis millibus nummûm constiterunt."
[700] _Fictile._ III., 168, "Fictilibus cœnare pudet."
[701] _Miscellanea._ "A special diet-bread to advantage the combatants at once in breath and strength." _Holyday._ It is said to have been a mixture of cheese and flour; probably a kind of macaroni. "Gladiatoria sagina." Tac., Hist., ii., 88. Prop., IV., viii., 25.
[702] _Ferratû._ XIV., 259, "Æratâ multus in arcâ fiscus." X., 25. Hor., i., Sat. i., 67.
[703] _E cœlo._ This precept has been assigned to Socrates, Chilo, Thales, Cleobulus, Bias, Pythagoras. It was inscribed in gold letters over the portico of the temple of Delphi. Hence, perhaps, the notion afterward, that it was derived immediately from heaven.
[704] _Conjugium._ Cf. Æsch., Pr. V., 890. Ov., Her., ix., 32, "Si qua voles aptè nuberè nube pari."
[705] _Sacri._ "The undaunted spirit," says Gifford, "which could thus designate the senate in those days of tyranny and suspicion, deserves at least to be pointed out."
[706] _Thersites._ Cf. vii., 115: x., 84; viii., 269. Juvenal is very fond of referring to this contest.
[707] _Traducebat._ II., 159, "Illuc heu miseri traducimur." VIII., 17, "Squalentes traducit avos." It means literally "to expose to public derision," a metaphor taken from leading malefactors through the forum with their name and offense suspended from their neck. Cf. Suet., Tit., 8. Mart., i., Ep. liv., 3, "Quæ tua traducit manifesto carmina furto." VI., lxxvii., 5, "Rideris multoque magis traduceris afer Quam nudus medio si spatiere foro." Grang. explains it "se risui exponebat: nec enim arma Achillis Ulyssem decebant." Browne, "in which Ulysses cut a doubtful figure." Others refer ancipitem to _loricam_; or place the stop after _Ulysses_, and take ancip. with _causam_. Gifford omits the passage altogether, as a tasteless interpolation of some Scholiast. Dryden turns it,