[126]: Literally looker-on,—one admitted to behold the secret ceremonies in the Eleusinian mysteries.—Tr.
[127]: To know how to obey is a glory equal to that of commanding.—Tr.
[128]: "Slaves are accounted nobodies."—Tr.
[129]: In real life.—Tr.
[130]: To make one a queue is a proverb for imposing on him (like pinning a rag to one's coat-tail?).—Tr.
[131]: Diet (from dies) implies the idea of day, but the German "Reichstag" makes the pun more palpable in the original.—Tr.
[132]: A lady's watch, as is well known, shaped like a heart, provided on the back with a dial-gnomon and magnetic needle. The latter points out to the ladies (who hate cold) the south also, in fact, and the sun-dial-index serves as a moon-dial-index.
[133]: "Rome concealed the name of her god, and she was wrong; I conceal the name of my goddess, and I am right."
[134]: Or Tensa, the carriage on which they bore the images of the gods in the Circensian games.—Tr.
[135]: A shrine.—Tr.