human
There the pale victim only fears the knife, But thy fell zeal asks something more than life.
gpt
Dicitur Ægyptos caruisse juvantibus arva Imbribus, atque annos sicca fuisse novem. Cum Thracius Busirin adit, monstratque piari Hospitis effuso sanguine posse Jovem. Illi Busiris, Fies Jovis hostia primus, Inquit et Ægypto tu dabis hospes opem. It is to this story Juvenal probably alludes. But _invidiam facere_ means also
human
(cf. Ov., Met., iv., 547), and so Gifford understands it.
gpt
What more effectual means could these cannibals devise to incense the god and provoke him to withhold his fertilizing waters, thereby bringing him into unpopularity. Cf. Lucan, ii., 36,
human
Nullis defuit aris Invidiam factura parens,
gpt
Nam quâ Pellæi gens fortunata Canopi Accolit effuso stagnantem flumine Nilum Et circum _pictis_ vehitur sua rura _phaselis_. The deficiency of timber in Egypt forced the inhabitants to adopt any expedient as a substitute. Strabo (lib. xvii.) mentions these vessels of pottery-ware, varnished over to make them water-tight. Phaselus is properly the long Egyptian kidney bean, from which the boats derived their name, from their long and narrow form. From their speed they were much used by pirates, and seem to have been of the same build as the Myoparones mentioned by Cicero in Verrem, ii., 3. Cf. Catull., iv., 1,
human
Phaselus ille quem videtis hospites Ait fuisse navium celerrimus. Mart., x., Ep. xxx., 12,
gpt
Viva sed quies Ponti Pictam phaselon adjuvante fert aurâ.
human
Or through the tranquil water's easy swell, Work the short paddles of their painted shell.
gpt
Quum populum gregibus comitum premit hic spoliator Pupilli prostantis, x., 222,
human
Quot Basilus socios, quot circumscripserit Hirrus pupillos.
gpt
Quem si puellarum insereres choro Miré sagaces falleret hospites Discrimen obscurum solutis Crinibus ambiguoque vultu.
human
So soft his tresses, filled with trickling pearl, You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl.
gpt
Suggrundarium.
human
Vetabo qui _Cereris_ sacrum vulgârit _arcanæ_, sub îsdem sit trabibus fragilemve mecum solvat phaselon. Cf. Sat. vi., 50,
gpt
Paucæ adeo Cereris vittas contingere dignæ.