[1851] This Fragment, as well as 37 and 44, Gerlach supposes to have been addressed to Ælius Stilo.
[1852] Vel vitæ vel gaudî dator. Gerlach's last conjecture.
[1853] Bulga. Cf. lib. ii., Fr. 16; vi., Fr. i.
[1854] Irrigarier. Cf. Plaut., Pœn., III., iii., 86, "Vetustate vino edentulo ætatem irriges." Virg., Æn., iii., 511, "Fessos sopor irrigat artus."
[1855] Capital. Cf. Plaut., Trin., IV., iii., 81, "Capitali periculo." Rud., II., iii., 19. Mostell., II., ii., 44, "Capitalis ædes facta est."
[1856] Difflo. "Flatu disturbo." Non. Cf. Plaut. Mil. Gl., I., i., 17, "Quoius tu legiones difflavisti spiritu, quasi ventus folia aut paniculam tectoriam." Gerlach thinks this refers to some description of the return of the Greeks from the Trojan war, and is quoted by Lucilius to show how entirely his style of composition differs from such subjects.
[1857] Nundinæ. The market days were every ninth day, when the country people came into Rome to sell their goods. These days were nefasti. "Ne si liceret cum populo agi, interpellarentur nundinatores." Fest.
[1858] Lira is properly "the ridge thrown up between two furrows." Hence lirare, "to plow or harrow in the seed." [In Juv., Sat. xiii., 65, some read "liranti sub aratro.">[ Delirare, therefore, is "to go out of the right furrow." Hence, "to deviate from the straight course, to go wrong, or deranged." Hor., i., Ep. xii., 20, "Quidquid delirant reges plectuntur Achivi."
[1859] Spectatam. Ov., Trist., I., v., 25, "Ut fulvum spectatur in ignibus aurum tempore sic duro est inspicienda fides." Cic., Off., ii., 11, "Qui pecuniâ non movetur hunc igni spectatum arbitrantur."
[1860] Siccare, is properly applied "to healing up a running sore." Then generally for hardening and making healthy the skin or body.