'Furei cui neque servus est neque arca,' etc.
[318] 'Who has neither beast, or slave, or attendant; he carries about him his purse and all his money; with his purse he sleeps, dines, bathes—his whole hopes centre in his purse; this purse is fastened to his arm.'
[319] Cp. the speech of Cato (Livy, xxxiv. 4) in support of the Oppian law:—'An blandiores in publico quam in privato, et alienis quam vestris estis?'
[320] 'These bugbears and goblins from the days of the Fauni and Numa Pompilius fill him with terror; he believes anything of them. As children suppose that statues of brass are real and living men, so they fancy all these delusions to be real: they believe that there is understanding in brazen images: mere painter's blocks, no reality, all a delusion.' Cf. Horace, Ep. ii. 2. 208:—
Somnia, terrores magicos, miracula, sagas,
Nocturnos lemures portentaque Thessala rides?'
[321] De Fin. i. 3.
[322] 'You preferred, Albucius, to be called a Greek, rather than a Roman or Sabine, a fellow-countryman of the Centurions, Pontius, Tritannius, excellent, first-rate men, and our standard-bearers. Accordingly, I, as praetor of Athens, when you approach me, greet you, as you wished to be greeted. "Chaere," I say, Titus; my lictors, escort, staff, address you with "Chaere." Hence you are to me a public and private enemy.'
[323] 'Et Pacuvius, et Pacuvio jam sene Accius, clariorque tunc in poematis eorum obtrectandis Lucilius fuit.'
[324] E.g.