worshippers. 10.
coronam: hoop. 12. nondum victa faba: too young yet to crunch the bean.
15. Immo: No indeed!

_5._ 2. sed...fenestra: window-gardens were common in Rome.
4. nemus Dianae: i.e. a forest of 'big timber.' 7. corona: not
understood. 16. sus Calydonius: the type of a huge and ferocious wild
animal. 17. ungue Prognes: the talon of Progne, i.e. of the swallow. For
myth see _Harper's Classical Dictionary_, 'Tereus.' 20. et...picata: a
nut will take the place of the pitch-bedaubed dolium. 22, 23.
praedium...prandium: lands...a lunch.

_6._ To a friend who has long been saying that to-morrow he will change
it all and really live. 4. In the Orient, the region of the sunrise, is
where that happy to-morrow is hiding, if anywhere. 5. These two are
types of longevity.

_7._ 4. focus perennis: a kitchen fire never idle. 5. toga rara:
a dress suit seldom. The toga was connected with burdensome duties, as
with the service of client to patron. 6. vires ingenuae: a gentleman's
measure of strength. 10. torus: wife. 12. quod...malis: Martial's
principle in life, 'to be yourself and not strive to be somebody else.'

_8._ The eruption is that of 79 A.D., which destroyed Herculaneum and
Pompeii. Epistles 6. 16 and 6. 20 of the younger Pliny, and the final
chapters of Bulwer-Lytton's _Last Days of Pompeii_ may be read in this
connection. 1. modo: but now. 2. presserat lacus: had filled the vats.
3. Nysae: a mountain in India where, according to the myth, Bacchus was
born. 5. Veneris sedes: Venus was the protecting deity of Pompeii. 6.
Herculaneum was named from and protected by Hercules. 7. mersa favilla:
Pliny, writing of the eruption, says, Epistula 6. 20. 18, 'Everything
was covered with deep ashes as with snow.' 8. nec...sibi: and the gods
could wish they had not been permitted this.

_9._ When Brutus, the slayer of Caesar, committed suicide after the
defeat at Philippi, his wife Porcia also took her own life. The common
story was that her friends, suspecting her design, removed all weapons
out of her way, and that she thereupon destroyed herself by swallowing
live coals. The real fact may have been that she suffocated herself by
the vapor of a charcoal stove,--a common method of suicide with the
Romans. 4. fatis: by his death. patrem: Cato the Younger, who slew
himself at Utica after the disastrous battle at Thapsus. 6. ferrum:
emphatic.

_10._ 1. Arria: the wife of Caecina Paetus. In 42 A.D., on the
charge of consp