[84] Nuper. The allusion is to Domitian and his niece Julia, who died from the use of abortives (cf. Plin., iv., Epist. xi.: "Vidua abortu periit"), cir. A.D. 91. This, therefore, fixes the date of the Satire, which was probably one of Juvenal's earliest, and written when he was about thirty. Cf. Sat. xiii., 17.
[85] Cf. vi., 368.
[86] Vexantur. E somno excitantur, alluding to "Lex Julia Dormis?" Cf. i., 126.
[87] The whole of this ironical defense contains the bitterest satire upon the women of Rome, as all these crimes he proves in the 6th Satire to be of every-day occurrence.
[88] Puellæ. Cf. Sat. ix., 70, seq.
[89] Cylindros, called, vi., 459, "Elenchos." Cf. Arist., Fr., 300, ἑλικτῆρες.
[90] Nudus, i. e., in the Roman sense, without the toga.
[91] Cotytto herself, the goddess of licentiousness, was wearied with their impurities.
[92] Actoris. Æn., xii., 94.
[93] Bebriacum, between Verona and Cremona, where the deciding battle was fought between Otho and Vitellius.