FOOTNOTES
Footnote 1: A proverb for a nobody, as Petron, 58: qui te natum non putat.
Footnote 2: "Augurinus" unknown. Baba: see Sep. Ep. 159, a fool.
Footnote 3: Reference unknown.
Footnote 4: A Gallic slave, appointed by Augustus Procurator of Gallia Lugudunensis, when he made himself notorious by his extortions. See Dion Cass. liv, 21.
Footnote 5: A proverb, found also in Herondas iii, 76: apparently fairy-land, the land of Nowhere.
Footnote 6: Perhaps alluding to a mock marriage of Silius and Messalina.
Footnote 7: Again μωροῦ for θεοῦ as in ch. 6.
Footnote 8: Proverb: meaning unknown.
Footnote 9: Perhaps an allusion to the shortening of the consul's term, which was done to give more candidates a chance of the honour.
Footnote 10: Il., iii, 109; alluding here to Janus's double face.
Footnote 11: The speech seems to contain a parody of Augustus's style and sayings.
Footnote 12: M. Valerius Messala Corvinus, appointed præfectus urbi, resigned within a week.
Footnote 13: A proverb, like "Charity begins at home." The reading of the passage is uncertain; "sister" is only a conjecture, and it is hard to see why his sister should be mentioned.
Footnote 14: Some formula such as ais esse meum.
Footnote 15: Catullus iii, 12.
Footnote 16: Talthybius was a herald, and nuntius is obviously a gloss on this. He means Mercury.
Footnote 17: By the Cloaca?
Footnote 18: With a slight change, a cry used in the worship of Osiris.
Footnote 19: A proverbial line.