[79] Olbia, now Hyères.
[80] Rhodanus, now called the Rhône.
[81] Savo. Now Savona on the Riviera.
[82] Albium Ingaunum. The modern Albenga, south-west of Savona.
[83] It would sail straight to Gaul to meet your sisters in beauty. The women of Marseilles, and especially those belonging to the neighboring city of Arles, are distinguished even at the present day for a beauty resembling the type of the Hellenic ideal of feminine loveliness.
[84] A shower of rose-scented spray. This delicious method of cooling the air, which was by no means rare in wealthy and noble houses, was called sparsio (sprinkling). In theatres, etc. the spectators, on particularly hot days, were cooled by such sparsiones.
[85] Paphos (Πάφος more accurately Παλαίπαφος, Old Paphos, to distinguish it from Πάφος νέα, New Paphos) a city of Cyprus, the principal seat of the worship of Aphrodite. Here the foam-born goddess was said to have risen from the sea. See Hor. Od. I, 36: III, 28 etc.
[86] Quoted the famous line of Catullus. See Cat. V, I: Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus!
[87] He plucks the present. See Hor. Od. I, ii, 8. The expression “he enjoys the present day” is a literal translation of the “carpe diem” used there—just as the phrase: “without troubling himself about the future” corresponds with Horace’s “quam minimum credula postero.”
[88] The Mamertine Prison. The state-prison in Rome was the Carcer Mamertinus at the foot of the Capitol—still in existence at the present time.