7827. Cp. Conf. Am. v. 870 (margin), ‘Iupiter deus deliciarum.’
7883. allaita, apparently here ‘sucked (milk)‘: ‘he thinks not of the former time when he sucked the simple milk and longed for it.’
7896. ‘Nor will they hunt in that wood,’ that is, they will not share in the sport: ‘brosser,’ ‘bruisser,’ a term of the chase, meaning to ride or run through thick underwood, see Littré under ‘brosser,’ and New Eng. Dict. ‘brush.’
7940. ‘Martinmas beef’ was the meat salted in the autumn for the supply of the household during the winter, in times when keep for cattle in winter was hard to get.
7969. Cp. Trait. xv. 1 ff., ‘Car beal oisel par autre se chastie,’ a proverbial expression meaning that one should take example by others.
7972. The story is told in the same connexion Conf. Am. vi. 986 ff.
7993. 2 Pet. ii. 12 ff.
8049. Deut. xxxii. 15 ff.
8053. Is. xlvii. 8, 9.
8072. For the position of ‘et’ see note on 415.