[59] Sc. descendants. Vid. Nares, s.v.
[60] Cf. Tacitus, Ann. xv. 53.
[61] 4tos. losse.
[62] 4tos. soft.
[63] Quy. they.—The passage, despite its obscurity of expression, seems to me intelligible; but I dare not venture to paraphrase it.
[64] 4tos. are we.
[65] "Call me cut" meant commonly nothing more than Falstaff's "call me horse"; but as applied to Sporus the term "cutt-boy" was literally correct. For what follows in the text cf. Sueton. Vit. Ner. cap. 28.
[66] 4to. Subius, Flavius.
[67] Quy. "I, [sc. aye] to himselfe; 'twould make the matter cleare," &c.
[68] 4tos. Gallii. Our author is imitating Juvenal (Sat. x. ll. 99-102):—