Page 259, l. 12. locus, etc.:  a pleasant site, on the sea itself, and can be seen from Antium and Circeii.

Page 265, footnote 3. Ut illum, etc.:  may the gods confound him who first invented the hours, and who first placed a sundial in this city.  Pity on me!  They have cut up my day in compartments.  Once when I was a boy my stomach was my clock, and it was much more fitting and reliable; it never failed to warn me except when there was nothing; now, even when there is something, there is no eating unless it so please the sun.  For the whole city is full of sun-dials, and most of the people crawl on in need of food and drink.

Page 269, footnote 1. Romae, etc.:  in Rome it was for a long time a joy and a pride to open up the house at early morning and attend to the legal needs of the clients.

Page 275, l. 20. Nesciit vivere:  he did not know how to live.

Page 277, l. 10. ad noctem:  late into the night.

Page 280, l. 17. Saepe tribus, etc.:  often you would see three couches with four guests apiece.

Page 283, l. 21. [Greek:  Emetikhaeu], etc.:  he was under the emetic cure, and consequently ate and drank freely and with much satisfaction; and everything certainly was good and well served; nay more, I may say that

  “Though the cook was good,
  ’Twas Attic salt that flavored best the food.”

Page 283, footnote 1. qua lege, etc.:  which law did not determine the expense, but the kind of victuals and the manner of cooking them.

Page 285, l. 11. Agricolo, etc.:  the farmer is the first who after a long day of toil in the fields adapted rustic songs to the laws of metre; the first in satisfied leisure to modulate a song on his reed, which he would say before the gods decked with flowers.  It was the farmer, O Bacchus, who with his face colored with reddish minium, taught his untrained feet the first movements of the dance.

Page 287, l. 13. Quippe etiam, etc.:  for even on holy days, divine and human laws allow us to perform certain works.  No religion has forbidden to clear the channels, to raise a fence before the corn, to lay snares for birds, to fire the thorns, and plunge in the wholesome river a flock of bleating sheep.

Page 303, l. 2. lex de ambitu:  law concerning the courting of popular favor in canvassing.

Page 307, l. 4. Eandem, etc.:  a time will come when you will bewail that valor of yours.

Page 309, l. 7. Spectatum, etc.:  they come to see, but they come also to be seen.

Page 313, l. 27. summuts artifex:  consummate artist.

Page 314, l. 3. gravis:  serious.

Page 314, l. 4. gravitas:  seriousness.

Page 315, l. 14. Fescennina, etc.:  the rude Fescennine farce grew from rites like these, where rustic taunts were hurled in alternate verse; and the pleasing license, tolerated from year to year, gambolled, etc.