974 ([return])
[ A.U.C. 745. So that Horace was in his fifty-seventh, not his fifty-ninth year, at the time of his death.]
975 ([return])
[ It may be concluded that Horace died at Rome, under the hospitable roof of his patron Mecaenas, whose villa and gardens stood on the Esquiline hill; which had formerly been the burial ground of the lower classes; but, as he tells us, Nunc licet Esquiliis habitare salubribus, atque Aggere in aprico spatiare.—Sat. i. 8.]
976 ([return])
[ Cordova. Lucan was the son of Annaeus Mella, Seneca’s brother.]
977 ([return])
[ This sentence is very obscure, and Ernesti considers the text to be imperfect.]
978 ([return])
[ They had good reason to know that, ridiculous as the tyrant made himself, it was not safe to incur even the suspicion of being parties to a jest upon him.]