[53] Lucanian Sausage. The old Romans were passionately fond of sausages. They had black-pudding (botuli) liver and common sausage (tomacula) which were to be had hot in the streets from little tin ovens, smoked sausage (hillae) and Lucanian. (Lucanicae, so called from the province of Lucania in Lower Italy, famed for its sausages) which were usually eaten with spelt-flour bread. See Mart. Ep. XIII, 35:
“Daughter of a Picenian pig, I come from Lucania;
By me a grateful garnish is given to snow-white pottage.”
[54] Martial Ep. IV., 46. “All these airs and all this exaltation are excited in Sabellus by half a peck of meal and as much of parched beans; by three half-pounds of frankincense, and as many of pepper; by a sausage from Lucania, and a sow’s pauch from Falerii; by a Syrian flagon of dark, mulled wine, and some figs candied in a Libyan jar, accompanied with onions, and shell-fish, and cheese. From a Picenian client came a little chest that would scarcely hold a few olives, and a nest of seven cups from Saguntum, polished with the potter’s rude graver, the clay workmanship of a Spanish wheel, and a napkin variegated with the laticlave. More profitable Saturnalia, Sabellus has not had these ten years.”
Bohn, Class. Lib.
[55] Praxiteles. A celebrated Athenian sculptor, creator of the famous Cnidian Venus, a master of the graceful and charming. Clodianus only means to say: a great sculptor; otherwise something about Lysippus would have been more appropriate to the subject—two wrestlers.
[56] Frigidarium. The cold bath, in distinction from the caldarium, the hot bath. Rooms, similar to those described here—are found, though of smaller size, among the excavations at Pompeii.
[57] Tractators, (tractatores). The name of the slaves who, after the bath, rubbed and kneaded the body and limbs. (See Sen. Ep. 66.) According to Mart. Ep. III, 82, slave-women (tractatrices) also performed these services, but probably only in private houses.
[58] Herodianus not only bolted the door, but barred it too. The fastening of the door was usually accomplished either by bolts (pessuli), or by means of a crossbar (sera). Here the crossbar is used besides the ordinary fastening of the bolt, as an additional means of security. The crossbar was generally made of wood.
[59] City prefect, (praefectus urbi). His position under the emperors was similar to the office of a chief of police. He commanded the cohortes urbanae, the city-guard. His authority extended to the hundredth mile-stone.