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Arabian Balsam, was considered one of the most expensive perfumes. πρὸς τὰ πολυτελῆ μύρα ἀντ' ἐλαίου ἔχρωντο. Dioscor., iv., 160. Cf. Hor., iii., Od. xxix., 4,
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Pressa tuis _balanus_ capillis Jamdudum apud me est. The gausape is properly a thick shaggy kind of stuff. Hence Sen., Ep. 53,
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Frigidæ cultor mitto me in mare quomodo psychrolutam decet, gausapatus. Lucil., xx., Fr. 9,
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Purpureo tersit tunc latas gausape mensas. From whom Horace copies, ii., Sat. viii., 10,
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Puer alte cinctus acernam gausape purpureo mensam pertersit. It is here used for
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While we are intent on wounding our adversaries, we leave our own weak points unguarded; i. e., while satirizing others, we are quite forgetful of and blind to our own defects. There is here also a covert allusion to Nero, who, though so open to sarcasm, yet took upon him to satirize others. Cf. ad Juv., iv., 106,
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Et tamen improbior satiram scribente cinædo.
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Cito nobis placemus: si invenimus qui nos bonos viros dicat, qui prudentes, qui sanctos, agnoscimus. Nec sumus modicâ laudatione contenti: quidquid in nos adulatio sine pudore congessit, tanquam debitum prendimus: optimos nos esse sapientissimos affirmantibus assentimur.
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This line, Casaubon says,
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Puteal is put for the forum itself by synecdoche. It is properly the
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a place which L. Scribonius Libo caused to be inclosed (perhaps cir. A.U.C. 604). It had been perhaps a bidental (cf. ad Sat. ii., 27), or, as others say, the place where the razor of the augur Nævius was deposited. Near it was the prætor's chair, and the benches frequented by persons who had private suits, among whom the class of usurers would be most conspicuous. (Hence Hor., i., Epist. xix., 8,
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Forum putealque Libonis Mandabo siccis. ii., Sat. vi., 35.) _Puteal flagellare_, therefore, is taken in its primitive sense to mean,
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Cf. Ov., Remed., Am., 561,
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Qui _puteal_ Janumque timet, celeresque Kalendas. Cic., Sext., 8. In its secondary sense, it may apply to the nightly atrocities of Nero, who used to frequent the forum, violently assaulting those he met, and outrageously insulting females, not unfrequently committing robberies and even murder; but having been soundly beaten one night by a nobleman whose wife he had outraged, he went ever after attended by gladiators, as a security for his personal safety; who kept aloof until their services were required. Nero might well, therefore, be called the