[204] Note X.
[205] Note XI.
NOTES
ON
TRANSLATIONS FROM PERSIUS.
SATIRE II.
Note I.
Let this auspicious morning be exprest
With a white stone.——P. [222].
The Romans were used to mark their fortunate days, or any thing that luckily befel them, with a white stone, which they had from the island Creta, and their unfortunate with a coal.
Note II.
——Great Hercules,
That once thy bounteous deity would please
To guide my rake upon the chinking sound
Of some vast treasure, hidden under ground.—P. [222].