[1098] The art of printing, Fée remarks, utterly precludes the recurrence of such a fact as this.
[1099] In allusion to his poem, the “Works and Days,” the prototype of Virgil’s Georgics.
[1100] He alludes to the legacy-hunters with which Rome abounded in his time. They are spoken of by Seneca, Tacitus, and Juvenal, in terms of severe reprobation.
[1101] This seems to be the meaning of “captatio;” much like what we call “toadying,” or “toad-eating.”
[1102] The “liberales artes,” were those, the pursuit of which was not considered derogatory to the dignity of a free man.
[1103] Vita ipsa desiit.
[1104] Humilitas.
[1105] In the Georgics.
[1106] Theophrastus reckons it among the trees; Columella, B. ii., considers it to occupy a middle position between a tree and a shrub. Horace, B. i. Ode 18, calls it a tree, “arbor.”
[1107] Or “layers,” “propagines.”