95. #surgit#: 'is swelling,' 'getting bloated.' --#tacite#: 'insensibly'
(Conington). --#pellis#: 'hide.' Comp. Juv., 10, 192: _deformem pro cute
#pellem#_.
96. #At tu deterius#: _Le trait est comique. Ce serait de la gaieté, si
Perse savait rire_, Nisard. --#ne sis mihi tutor#, etc.: Proverbial. So
Hor., Sat., 2, 3, 88: _ne sis patruus mihi_.
97. #iam pridem sepeli#: Comp. _Omnes composui. Felices! Nunc ego
resto_, Hor., Sat., 1, 9, 28. _Sepeli_ for _sepelii_ (_sepelivi_),
a rare contraction. --#turgidus his epulis#: Hor., Ep., 1, 6, 61: _crudi
#tumidique# lavemur_, and comp. Juv., 1, 142 seqq: _paena tamen
praesens, cum tu deponis amictus | #turgidus# et crudum pavonem in
balnea portas | hinc subitae mortes atque intestata senectus_. --#hic#:
'our man.' --#albo ventre#: _Turgidus epulis_ is one feature, _albo
ventre_ another. _Ventre_ does not depend on _turgidus_. The color
(+leukos+) is a sign of weakness and sickness. The swollen belly makes a
ghastly show. --#lavatur#: 'takes his bath.' Comp. G., 209; A., 39, _c_,
N.
99. #sulpureas mefites#: _Mefitis_ is originally the vapor from
sulphur-water; hence the propriety of the epithet _sulpureas_.
100. #calidum triental#: The wine was heated to bring out the sweat.
_Bibere et sudare vita cardiaci est_, Sen., Ep., 15, 3. --#triental#:
restored by Jahn (1843) for _trientem_, to which he returned in 1868.
_Triens_ is the measure, 1/3 sextarius, _triental_ would be the vessel.
Comp. with this passage Lucil., 28, 39-40 (L. M.): _ad cui? quem febris
una atque una +apepsia+ | vini inquam #cyathus# unus potuit tollere_.
101. #crepuere#: Vivid Aorist, not a simple return to the narrative
form. Comp. 5, 187. For the Greek, which Persius imitates, see Kühner,
_Ausf. Gramm._ (_2te Ausg._), 2, 138. --#retecti#: He shows his teeth
when he chatters.
102. #uncta#: Remember the large use of oil in Italian cookery.
--#cadunt# = _vomuntur_, but there is a certain helplessness in
_cadunt_. --#pulmentaria#: originally +opson+, 'relish,' afterward
'dainties.' See the Dictionaries.
103. #hinc#: 'hereupon.' --#tuba#: Trumpets announced the death, and
trumpets were sounded at the funeral. See Hor., Sat., 1, 6, 42.
--#candelae# = _cerei_, 'wax lights,' supposed by Jahn and others to
have been used chiefly when the death was sudden, on the basis of Sen.,
Tranq., 11, 7. --#tandem#: 'After all the preliminary performances'
(Macleane). --#beatulus#: +makaritês+. Jahn cites Amm. Marcell., 25, 3:
_quem cum #beatum# fuisse Sallustius respondisset praefectus, intellexit
occisum_. 'The dear departed' (Conington). 'Our sainted friend.'
--#alto#: A mark of a first-class funeral.
104. #conpositus#: 'laid out.' 'By foreign hands thy decent limbs
_composed_,' Pope. --#crassis lutatus amomis#: Every word is
contemptuous: 'bedaubed with lots of coarse ointments.' The Plural
_amoma_ indicates the cheap display. With _crassis_, comp. Hor., A. P.,
375: _#crassum# unguentum_; with _amomis_, Juv., 4, 108: _#amomo# |
quantum vix redolent duo funera_.
105. #in portam#: A custom at least as old as Homer, Il., 19, 212.
_Porta_ here = _ianua_, _fores_, but 'nowhere else' (Macleane).
--#rigidas#: The gender of _calx_ is unsteady. See Neue, _Formenlehre_,
1, 694.
106. #hesterni Quirites#: 'Citizens of twenty-four hours' standing'
(Conington); slaves left free by him. Hence _capite induto_, with the
_pilleus_ 'cap of liberty' on. The winding up of the man reminds one of
Petron., 42: _bene elatus est, planctus est optime, manumisit aliquot_.
107. Persius hauls out his man-of-straw, his _souffre-douleur_, and
makes him talk. --#Tange venas#: 'Feel my pulse,' the regular
expression, as in Sen., Ep., 22, 1: _vena #tangenda# est_. --#miser#:
Comp. v. 15. 'You're another!' 'Poor creature yourself' (Conington).
--#pone in pectore dextram#: If you are not satisfied with my pulse, put
your hand on my heart.
108. #nil calet hic#: After some hesitation, I have given the whole
passage from _Tange miser_ to _non frigent_ to one person, who
anticipates the verdict of the monitor by _nil calet hic_ and _non
frigent_. 'You must admit that my heart is not hot nor my feet cold.' At
the same time the very clearness is an objection.
109. #Visa est si forte#: On the form of the conditional, see G., 569;
A., 59, 2, _b_. On the obvious thought, see 2, 52 foll.; 4, 47.