[2491] “Augebo providentiam illorum.” The meaning of this passage also is doubtful.
[2492] By adopting that language instead of the Latin; Sextius Niger, for instance.
[2493] Diplomas seem to have been less cared for in those times than at the present day even, when quackery has so free a range.
[2494] See B. iii. c. 26, and B. xxxiii. cc. 7, 8.
[2495] “Inquisitio per parietes.” The reading is doubtful, but he not improbably alludes to the employment of spies.
[2496] Hardouin thinks that he alludes to Cornelius Balbus here, a native of Gades. See B. v. c. 5, and B. vii. 44.
[2497] “Electis viris datur tabula.” He alludes to the three tablets delivered to the Judices, one of which had inscribed on it “Acquitted,” another “Not proven,” and a third “Guilty”—Absolvatur, Non liquet, and Condemno.
[2498] “In this place he casteth in the Romans’ teeth, their Lecticarii, Anagnostæ, and Nomenclatores.”—Holland. Letter-bearers, readers, and prompters as to the names of the persons addressed.
[2499] He alludes to the resources of medicine.
[2500] A physician at Rome, who was afterwards put to the torture for this crime. Livia was the daughter of Drusus Nero, the brother of Tiberius.