[538] _Faciens_; so _operatur_, xii., 92. Virg., Ecl., iii., 77, "Cum _faciam_ vitulâ pro fugibus ipse venito." So Georg., i., 339, "Sacra refer Cereri lætis operatus in herbis." So in Greek, ῥέζειν is constantly used absolutely.
"For more stolen wine than late Saufeia boused, When, for the people's welfare, she caroused!" Gifford.
"Yet worse than they, the man whose vicious deeds Makes him still tremble at the rogues he feeds." Badham.
[540] _Flosculus._ For many exquisite parallel passages to this, see Gifford's note.
"And while thou call'st for garlands, girls, and wine, Comes stealthy age, and bids thee all resign." Badham.
[542] _Digito._ Effeminate wretches, who, as Holyday says, like women, are afraid of touching their heads with more than a finger, for fear of discomposing their curls. Pompey had this charge brought against him by one Calvus; and cf. Plut. in Vit., 48. Amm. Marcell., XVII., xi.
[543] _Lares_, cf. xii., 87. Hor., iii., Od. xxiii., 15, "Parvos coronantem marino Rore Deos, fragilique myrto." Plin., xi., 2, "Numa instituit deos fruge colere, et mola salsa supplicare et far torrere."
[544] _Figam_, a metaphor from hunting.--_Tegete_, cf. v., 8, "Nusquam pons et tegetis pars."--_Baculo_, cf. Ter., Heaut., V., i., 58.
[545] C. Fabricius Luscinus, when censor, removed from the senate P. Cornelius Rufinus, who had been twice consul and once dictator, for having in his possession more than ten pounds' weight of plate. Liv., Epit., xiv. He was censor A.U.C. 478. Cf. xi., 90, _seq._
[546] _Duo fortes._ Persons of moderate fortune rode in their _sella gestatoria_, a sedan borne by two persons. The rich had litters or palanquins, called hexaphori, or octophori, according to the number of the lecticarii. Cf. i., 64. Mœsia, now Bulgaria and Servia, is said to have been famous for producing these brawny chairmen.
[547] _Curvus._ So Lubinus interprets it. "Cum enim laborat se incur vat." Cf. Virg., Eccl., iii., 42, "curvus arator;" so Art. Am., ii., 670, "Curva senectus." Or from his assiduity, "qui assiduus in opere est." Madan says, "Curvus means crooked, that hath turnings and windings; and this latter, in a mental sense, denotes cunning, which is often used for _skillful_." Cf. Exod., xxxviii., 23. The old Schol. explains it by Anaglyptarius, "a carver in low relief."