[211] "Tenet," or "keeps to himself," or "holds up to the light."
[212] Setine was the favorite wine of Augustus. Alban. Cf. Hor., ii., Sat. viii., 16.
[213] Amber was fabled to be produced by the tears of the sisters of Phaeton, the daughters of the Sun, shed for his loss, on the banks of the Eridanus, where they were metamorphosed into poplars or alders.
[214] Cf. Virg., Æn., iv., 261.
[215] Nero, on his way to Greece, fell in at Beneventum with one Vatinius, "Sutrinæ tabernæ alumnus," whom he took first as his buffoon, and afterward as his confidant. Tac., Ann., xv., 34. Cf. Martial, xiv., Ep. 96.
[216] Sulphura. Cf. Mart., i., Ep. 43, Qui pallentia sulphurata fractis permutat vitreis. Vid. x., 3, Quæ sulphurata nolit empta ramento Vatiniorum proxeneta fractorum. Compare the "Bellarmines" of mediæval pottery and the Flemish "Graybeards."
[217] Pruinis. "Neronis principis inventum est decoquere aquam, vitroque demissam in nives refrigerare." Plin., xxxi., 3.
[218] Frivola; properly "goods and chattels." Cf. iii., 198.
[219] Artocopi. Cf. Xen., An., IV., iv., 21. Some read Artoptæ.
[220] This is the indignant exclamation of Trebius.