See Mr. Aldis Wright’s note upon the passage.
[9] Paedagogus was a slave who accompanied a boy to school, &c., to keep him out of mischief; he did not teach him anything.
[10] Tempestiva, beginning before the usual hour.
[11] Fear of self-condemnation.
[12] Lipsius conjectures supprocax, mischievous.
[13] I have adopted the transposition of Haase and Koch.
[14] I adopt Vahlen’s reading. See his Preface, p. viii., ed, Jenae, 1879.
[15] I read onerosos with Vahlen, See his Preface, p, viii., ed, Jenae, 1879.
[16] The lines are from Virgil, Aen. viii. 702, but are inaccurately quoted.