[100] The meaning is, that men in some parts of Italy never wore a gown, the usual habit of the Romans, till they were buried in one.
[101] Any wealthy man.
[102] The Romans used to breed their tame pigeons in their garrets.
[103] Codrus, a learned man, very poor: by his books, supposed to be a poet; for, in all probability, the heroic verses here mentioned, which rats and mice devoured, were Homer's works.
[104] Herbs, roots, fruits, and sallads.
[105] Corbulo was a famous general, in Nero's time, who conquered Armenia, and was afterwards put to death by that tyrant, when he was in Greece, in reward of his great services. His stature was not only tall above the ordinary size, but he was also proportionably strong.
[106] The birth-place of Juvenal.