_In suum colorem_, to its colors. The parties represented in the
race-course were distinguished by different colors. The significance
of the expression is therefore evident. Another less probable
explanation of the passage is that the author has reference to the
effect of red wine when mixed with liquids of another color.
3. As the holidays in Rome were very numerous much time was lost by
those who spent all of them in idleness.
7. Cato, surnamed Uticensis, is here meant. He was the patron saint
of the Roman Stoics.
9. The sentence here translated, “For death,” etc., may also mean,
“For it requires less courage to meet death (once) than to seek it a
second time.”