[503] Nævolus is mentioned repeatedly by Martial, and seems to have been a lawyer, i., Ep. 98; iii., Ep. 71 and 95; iv., Ep. 84: hence perhaps the allusion to Marsyas, whose statue stood in the Forum, opposite the Rostra, as a warning to the litigious. Cf. Hor., i., Sat. vi., 120. Xen., Anab., I., ii., 8.
[504] Rhodope. Some well-known courtesan named after Æsop's fellow-slave in the house of Iadmon the Samian, afterward so well known in Egypt. Herod., ii., 134. Cf. Ælian., V. H., xiii., 33.
[505] Pollio. Cf. xi., 43, "digito mendicat Pollio nudo."
[506] Vernam equitem. The slaves born in the house were generally spoiled by indulgence; and they frequently got the nickname of Equites, out of petulant familiarity or fondness.
[507] Sylva.
"And every limb, once smooth'd with nicest care,
Rank with neglect, a shrubbery of hair." Gifford.
[508] Deprendas.
"Sorrow nor joy can be disguised by art,
Our foreheads blab the secrets of our heart." Dryden.
[509] Isis. Cf. vi., 489, "Aut apud Isiacæ potius sacraria lenæ."
[510] Pacis. Vespasian built the splendid temple of Peace near the Forum, A.D. 76. Dio., lxvi., 15. Suet., Vesp. 9. In it, or near it, stood the statue of Ganymede. Others think that Ganymedes is put for the temple of Jupiter.