"Bolt every door, stop every cranny tight,
Close every window, put out every light;
Let not a whisper reach the listening ear,
No noise, no motion—let no soul be near." Gifford.
[534] Gallicinium was the technical name for the second military watch, Vid. Facc.
[535] Carptores, Grangæus explains by "Escuiers trenchants." Facc. by δαιτρός and structor.
[536] Baltea.
"For countless scourgings will the rogues be slack
In slanderous villainies to pay thee back?" Badham.
[537] Saufeia, or Laufella, is supposed to be the "conjux Fusci," mentioned xii., 45, and Mart., iii., Ep. 72; and whose other debaucheries are mentioned vi., 320. Cicero, knowing the propensity of his countrywomen to wine-bibbing, would exclude them from officiating at any sacred rites (at which wine was always used) after nightfall. The festival of the Bona Dea is the only exception he would make. "Nocturna mulierum sacrificia ne sunto, præter olla quæ pro populo rite fiant."
[538] Faciens; so operatur, xii., 92. Virg., Ecl., iii., 77, "Cum faciam vitulâ pro fugibus ipse venito." So Georg., i., 339, "Sacra refer Cereri lætis operatus in herbis." So in Greek, ῥέζειν is constantly used absolutely.
"For more stolen wine than late Saufeia boused,
When, for the people's welfare, she caroused!" Gifford.
[539] Liber.
"Yet worse than they, the man whose vicious deeds
Makes him still tremble at the rogues he feeds." Badham.