[266] Note XII.
[267] Note XIII.
[268] Note XIV.
NOTES
ON
TRANSLATIONS FROM PERSIUS.
SATIRE VI.
Note I.
Has winter caused thee, friend, to change thy seat,
And seek in Sabine air a warm retreat.—P. [268].
All the studious, and particularly the poets, about the end of August, began to set themselves on work, refraining from writing during the heats of the summer. They wrote by night, and sat up the greatest part of it; for which reason the product of their studies was called their elucubrations, or nightly labours. They who had country-seats retired to them while they studied, as Persius did to his, which was near the port of the Moon in Etruria; and Bassus to his, which was in the country of the Sabines, nearer Rome.