mouth of
the dead to pay Charon's fee. 80. Spatium: i.e. how high the roofs are.
Cicero describes Rome as 'suspended in the air.' Some of the houses were
100 feet in height. 83. silicem: even the volcanic stone which forms the
pavement of the street is broken. 85 ff. quot patent vigiles fenestrae:
this may be punningly rendered,--as many as there are windows up.--Peck
and Arrowsmith, _Roman Life_, etc.

_2._ 9. sacellis: the shrines of the Lares found in every house. The
common offering at them was a pig. 10. tomacula: minced meat. 17.
Sardanapali: effeminate and luxurious, the last king of Assyria. When a
conspiracy against him was about to succeed, he burned himself with his
treasures. Byron has a drama _Sardanapalus_. 19. virtutem: Virtueland.
20. Nullum numen abest: the gods are all on the side of the provident.
Fortune is no deity and only we mistaken men think her such.

_3._ 3. quae lacrimas dedit: i.e. in that she gave us tears. haec: i.e.
sympathy. 4. ergo: i.e. this gift of tears implies that, etc. 5.
squaloremque rei: persons on trial often appeared in court with unshorn
beard, unwashed toga, and other signs of mourning. 6. circumscriptorem:
his dishonest guardian. 7. puellares capilli: boys wore long hair till
they put on the toga virilis. 10, 11. minor igni rogi: minor with the
ablative here means too small for. It was unusual to burn the bodies of
very young children. face dignus arcana: i.e. worthy of initiation into
the Eleusinian mysteries. On the fifth day of the festival the initiated
marched in a torch-light procession from Athens to Eleusis. They must be
holy in thought and deed. 13. mutorum: dumb animals. venerabile:
reverential. 14. divinorumque capaces: with a capacity to know God. 16.
sensum ff.: a feeling from above, i.e. sympathy. Man with his religious
nature, with his power to practice the arts, and his erect posture, is
given this also as a crowning mark of distinction from the lower
creation. 18. indulsit: in his goodness gave. 19, 20. tantum animas:
merely life. animum: a soul. mutuus adfectus: a feeling of brotherhood.
24. tutos: protected by. 25. collata fiducia: confidence due to union.
27. defendier: archaic form of defendi.

_4._ 1. Di: sc. date or dent. sine pondere terram: cf. Martial,
_Selection_ 13. 9, 10 and note. 2. spirantis: fragrant. perpetuum ver:
because the urn is always supplied with flowers.

2. procul, a procul inde: a part of the formula used to warn away the
unha