"Huius qui trahitur praetextam sumere mavis,
An Fidenarum Gabiorumque esse potestas
Et de mensura ius dicere, vasa minora
Frangere, pannosus vacuis Aedilis Ulubris?"
[69] Cf. Tacitus, Annals, xv. 59.
[70] 4tos. refuge.
[71] Quy. Euphrates.
[72] According to Tacitus, Piso retired to his house and there opened his veins. Vid. Ann. xv. 59.
[73] Cf. Shakespeare, "Make mad the guilty and appal the free." Hamlet, II. 2.
[74] So the 4tos; but Quy.
"The Emperour's much pleas'd That some have named Seneca."
[75] Cf. Tacitus, Ann. xv. 45; Sueton. Vit. Ner. 32.
[76] In Tacitus' account (Ann. xv. 67) the climax is curious:— "'Oderam te,' inquit; 'nec quisquam tibi fidelior militum fuit dum amari meruisti: odisse coepi, postquam parricida matris et uxoris, auriga et histrio et incendiarius extitisti.'"