5 Asellus cast it in the teeth of the great Scipio, that during his censorship, the lustrum had been unfortunate and inauspicious.[1749]
6 ... and now I wished to throw into verse a saying of Granius, the præco.[1750]
7 ... a noble meeting; there glittered the drawers, the cloaks, the twisted chains of the great Datis.[1751]
8 ... and a road must be made, and a rampart thrown up here, and that kind of groundwork—[1752]
9 ... he is a wanderer now these many years; he is now a soldier in winter quarters, serving with us
10 ... thence, while still of tender age and a mere boy, comes to Rome.
11 Nor have I need of him as a lover, nor a mean fellow to bail me—
12 ... he is a jibber, a shuffler, a hard-mouthed, obstinate brute.[1753]
13 When they had taken their seats here, and the skins were extended in due order....[1754]
14 ... who in the wash-house and the pool....