Sallust, the famous historian.
[Chapter 98.] The garb of manhood. He had already assumed the toga virilis, cp. [chap. 88]. This must be taken metaphorically = 'You let him behave like a man.'
[Chapter 101.] He who can plead in court, &c. There is a play on perorare (= to plead in court) and exorare (= to win over his mother by prayer).
[Chapter 102.] What a criminal use of love-philtres, &c. There is a pun on veneficium and beneficium which cannot be reproduced.
THE FLORIDA
[Chapter 2.] Plautus. Truculentus, ii. 6. 8.
the great poet. Homer, Iliad, iii. 12.
[Chapter 3.] Vergil. Ecl. iii. 27.
[Chapter 4.] Antigenidas, a famous musician of the first half of the fourth century b.c. Others attribute the grievance to his pupil Ismenias. This story is also told by Dio Chrysostom xlix.