[84] Cithara.
[85] Itinerant pipers have existed in Italy from earliest times; they still survive, albeit in alien lands and with less tuneful instruments.
[86] Mimæ.
[87] A common diversion for "young men of spirit."
[88] Acta Diurna, prepared officially.
[89] "Chaldean" astrologers played an almost incredibly important part among even the highest-class Romans of the period.
[90] Babylonian temple towers.
[91] Popinæ.
[92] A poet at that time of some little reputation.
[93] Women sat at Roman banquets, unless the company was of a questionable character.