then if, like a fowler with his eyes upon blackbirds, he fall into a well or pit, despite his far-reaching cry, "Help, O fellow-citizens ! not a soul will care to pull him out. And if one should care to lend aid and let down a rope, How do you know," I'll say, "but that he threw himself in on purpose, and does not wish to be saved?" and I'll tell the tale of the Sicilian poet's end. Empedocles, eager to be thought a god immortal, coolly leapt into burning Aetna. Let poets have the right and power to destroy themselves. Who saves a man against his will does the same as murder him. Not for the first time has he done this, nor if he is pulled out will he at once become a human being and lay aside his craving for a notable death. Nor is it very clear how he comes to be a verse-monger. Has he defiled ancestral ashes or in sacrilege disturbed a hallowed plot? At any rate he is mad, and, like a bear, if he has had strength to break the confining bars of his cage, he puts learned and unlearned alike to flight by the scourge of his recitals. If he catches a man, he holds him fast and reads him to death-a leech that will not let go the skin, till gorged with blood.
The bidental was a spot struck by lightning, which was consecrated by a sacrifice of sheep (bidentes).
The references are to books and lines in the Latin text. Abbreviations:
A.P.Ars Poetica; E. - Epistles; S. Satires or Sermones; also adj. =
adjective; al. alius; fem. = feminine; plur. plural; sing. = singular;
subst. substantive.
ACADEMUS, an old Athenian hero.
In a garden dedicated to him and
called Academia, Plato and his
successors taught. E. ii. 2. 45
Accius, Roman tragic poet, born
170 B.C., S. i. 10. 53; E. ii. 1. 56;
A. P. 258
Achilles, hero of the Iliad, S. i. 7.
12; ii. 3. 193; E. ii. 2. 42; A.P.
120. See Pelides
Achivi, the Greeks, S. ii. 3. 194;
E. i. 2. 14; ii. 1. 33
Actius, adj., of Actium, promon-
tory and town of Greece on the
Ambracian Gulf, where Octavius
defeated Antony in 31 B.C., E. i.
18. 61
Aegaeus, adj., Aegean, applied to
the sea between Greece and Asia
Minor, E. i. 11. 16
Aemilius, adj., of Aemilius (Lepidus),
who, according to Porphyrio,
set up a gladiatorial school,
A.P. 32
Aeneas, the Trojan hero, son of
Anchises and Venus, S. ii. 5. 63
Aeschylus, Greek tragic poet, E.
ii. 1. 163; A.P. 279
Aesopus, Roman tragic actor, S.
ii. 3. 239; E. ii. 1. 82
Aetna, the famous Mt. Etna in
Sicily, A.P. 465
Aetolus, adj., of Aetolia, in central
Greece, E. i. 18. 46
Afer, adj., African, S. ii. 4. 58;
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а Roman setting, known as
togatae, E. ii. 1. 57
Africa, i.e. Africa Provincia, the
Roman province of Africa, S.
ii. 3. 87
Agave, daughter of Cadmus, wife
of Echion, king of Thebes, who
in the madness of Bacchic rites
tore her son Pentheus to pieces,
S. ii. 3. 203
Agrippa, i.e. M. Vipsanius Agrippa,
son-in-law of Augustus, aedile in
33 B.C., S. ii. 3. 185; erected the
Portico of Neptune in 27 B.C.,
E. i. 6. 26; had estates in Sicily,
E. i. 12. 1; conquered the Can-
tabri in 20-19 B.C., E. i. 12. 26
Aiax, Greek hero, son of Telamon,
and brother of Teucer. In his
tragedy, the Ajax, Sophocles
represents Menelaus as forbid-
ding Teucer to bury the dead hero.
S. ii. 3. 187, 193, 201, 211
Albanus, adj., Alban, associated
with the Alban hills, or the
Alban Mount (now Monte Cavo)
near Rome, S. ii. 4. 72; E. i. 7.
10; ii. 1. 27
Albinovanus, i.e. Celsus Albino-
vanus, E. i. 8. 1. See Celsus
Albinus, probably a usurer, A.P. 327
Albius, (1) a man of expensive tastes,
S. i. 4. 28, 109; (2) the poet,
Albius Tibullus, E. i. 4. 1, possibly
son of (1)
Albucius, a name from Lucilius,
S. ii. 1. 48; ii. 2. 67
Alcaeus, Lesbian poet, E. i. 19. 29;
ii. 2. 99
Alcinous, king of Phaeacia and
host of Ulysses, E. i. 2. 28
Alcon, a Greek slave, S. ii. 8. 15
Alexander, i.e. Alexander the Great,
king of Macedon, E. ii. 1. 232, 241
Alfenus, a barber, who is said to
have become eminent in the law,
S. i. 3. 130
Allifanus, adj., of Allifae, a town
of Samnium, known for its
pottery, S. ii. 8. 39
Alpes, the Alps, S. ii. 5. 41
Alpinus, properly an adj., of the
Alps, a nickname given to M.
Furius Bibaculus, who wrote an
Aethiopis and a poem on Gaul, S. i.
10. 36. See also Furius
Amphion, son of Jupiter and
Antiope, mother of Zethus, and
famous player on the lyre. The
citadel of Thebes was built to the
accompaniment of his music. E.
i. 18. 41, 44; A.P. 394. See Zethus
Ancus, Ancus Marcius, fourth king
of Rome, E. i. 6. 27
Antenor, a Trojan chief, who pro-
posed to restore Helen to the
Greeks, E. i. 2. 9
Anticyra, a town in Phocis on the
Corinthian gulf, famous for its
hellebore, S. ii. 3. 83, 166, A.P.
300
Antiphates, king of the Laestry-
gones (Homer, Od. x. 100 f.), A.Þ.
Antonius, (1) Marcus Antonius,
the triumvir, S. i. 5. 33; (2)
Musa Antonius, a freedman and
physician, who cured Augustus
by cold-water treatment, E. i.
15. 3
Anxur, the old name of Terracina,
originally built at the top of a
hill, but later rebuilt on the
plain below, S. i. 5. 26
Anytus, one of the accusers of
Socrates, S. ii. 4. 3
Apella, a Jewish freedman, S. i. 5.
100
Apelles, a famous Greek painter,
E. ii. 1. 239
Apollo, the god, S. i. 9. 78; ii. 5.
60; E. i. 3. 17; i. 16. 59; ii. 1.
216; A.P. 407
Appia (Via), Appian Way, S. i. 5. 6
Appius, i.e. Appius Claudius
Caecus, who in 312 B.c. built the
Appian Way and Aqueduct, E.
i. 6. 26; i. 18. 20. The Forum
Appi, 43 miles south of Rome, was
also named from him, S. i. 53.
The Appius mentioned in S. i. 6.
21 is perhaps Appius Claudius
Pulcher, who was censor in 50 B. C.
Apulia, a district of Italy, S. i. 5. 77
Apulus, adj., of Apulia, S. ii. 1.
34, 38
Aquarius, the water-bearer, a sign
of the Zodiac, S. i. 1. 36
Aquilo, the north wind, or the
North, S. ii. 6. 25; ii. 8. 56;
A. P. 64
Aquinas, adj., of Aquinum, a town
of Latium, E. i. 10. 27
Arabs, an Arab, E. i. 6. 6; i. 7. 36
Arbuscula, an actress or mima,
celebrated in Cicero's time (Ad
Att. iv. 15), S. i. 10. 77
Archiacus, adj., of Archias, a maker
of furniture, E. i. 5. 1
Archilochus, Greek iambic poet,
flourished about 650 B. C., S. ii. 3.
12; E. i. 19. 25, 28; A.P. 79
Arellius, a rich neighbour of Horace,
S. ii. 6. 78
Argi, city of Argos, in the Pelopon-
nesus, often representative of
Greece in general, S. ii. 3. 132;
E. ii. 2. 128; A.P. 118
Aricia, a town sixteen miles south
of Rome, S. i. 5. 1
Aricinus, adj., of Aricia, E. ii. 2. 167
Aristarchus, a great Homeric critic,
flourished at Alexandria about
180 B.C.; A.P. 450
Aristippus, founder of the Cyrenaic
school of philosophy, S. ii. 3. 100;
E. i. 1. 18; i. 17. 14, 23
Aristius Fuscus, a friend of Horace,
S. i. 9. 61; i. 10. 83; E. i. 10. 1
Aristophanes, the most famous of
Attic writers of comedy, S. i. 4. 1
Armenius, adj., Armenian, E. i. 12.
Arrius, whose praenomen was Quin-
tus, and who gave a great funeral
entertainment, mentioned by
Cicero (In Vatinium, xii.), S. ii. 3.
86, 243
Asia, the province of Asia, in Asia
Minor, S. i. 7. 19, 24; E. i. 3. 5
Asina, cognomen of Vinius, E. i.
Assyrius, adj., of Assyria, A.P. 118.
Atabulus, a hot, dry wind, peculiar
to Apulia, the scirocco, S. i. 5. 78
Atacinus. See Varro
Athenae, Athens, S. i. 1. 64; ii. 7.
13; E. ii..1. 213; ii. 2. 43, 81
Atreus, son of Pelops, murdered
the children of Thyestes, his
brother, and served them as a
meal to their father, A.P. 186
Atrides, son of Atreus, Agamem-
non, S. ii. 3. 187; E. i. 2. 12;
Menelaus, E. i. 7. 43; plur. of
both sons, S. ii. 3. 203.
Atta, i.e. T. Quintius Atta, a writer
of togatae, who died in 78 B.C.,
E. ii. 1. 79
Attalicus, adj., of Attalus, the
name of several kings of Pergamos.
The last of these left his enormous
wealth to the Roman people in
133 B.C., E. i. 11. 5
Atticus, adj., of Attica or Athens,
S. ii. 8. 13
Aufidius, perhaps M.
Aufidius
Lurco, the first to fatten pea-
cocks for sale, according to Pliny
(N. H. x. 23. 20), S. ii. 4. 24
Aufidius Luscus, the "praefectus"
at Fundi, S. i. 5. 34
Aufidus, a river of Apulia, now
Ofanto, S. i. 1. 58
Augustus, imperial title of Octavius
Caesar, E. i. 3. 2, 7; i. 16. 29;
ii. 2. 48. See Caesar
Aulis, a town of Boeotia, whence
the Greeks sailed for Troy, S.
ii. 3. 199
Aulus, son of Oppidius, S. ii. 3. 171.
See Cascellius
Auster, the south wind, S. i. 1. 6;
ii. 2. 41; ii. 6. 18; ii. 8. 6; E. i.
11. 15
Avidienus, a miser, S. ii. 2. 55
BACCHIUS, a famous gladiator, S. i.
7. 20. See Bithus
Bacchus, a god of wine and of poets,
S. i. 3. 7 where some editors
read Bacchae, i.e. votaries of
Bacchus; E. ii. 2. 78
Baiae, a town of Campania, a
favourite seaside resort of the
Romans, E. i. 1. 83; i. 15. 2, 12
Baianus, adj., of Baiae, S. ii. 4. 32
Baius, a certain poor man, S. i. 4. 110
Balatro, a parasite of Maecenas, S.
ii. S. 21, 33, 40, 83 (cf. S. i. 2. 2)
Balbinus, a person unknown, S.
i. 3. 40
Barbaria, a general term for all
countries not Greek, E. i. 2. 7
Barium, a town in Apulia, now
Bari, S. i. 5. 97. To-day steamers
go from Bari to ports in Albania,
Montenegro, and Dalmatia
Barrus, (1) a vain person, unknown,
S. i. 6. 30; (2) a foul-mouthed
person, S. i. 7. 8
Bellona, sister of Mars, and goddess
of war, S. ii. 3. 223
Beneventum, a town of Samnium,
now Benevento, S. i. 5. 71
Bestius, probably a character in
Lucilius, E. i. 15. 37
Bibulus, probably C. Calpurnius
Bibulus, a step-son of Brutus, S.
i. 10. 86
Bioneus, adj., of Bion, a philosopher,
born in Scythia, who lived in
Athens in the third century B.C.,
and was famous for his caustic
wit, E. ii. 2. 60
Birrius, a robber, S. i. 4. 69
Bithus, a gladiator. He and
Bacchius, after slaying many
opponents, finally killed each
other. S. i. 7. 20
Bithynus, adj., of Bithynia, a Roman
province in Asia Minor, south of
the Euxine, E. i. 6. 33
Boeotus, adj., of Boeotia, a district
in Greece, north-west of Attica,
E. ii. 1. 244
Bolanus, a hot-headed acquaintance
of Horace (the name was derived
from Bola, a town of the Aequi),
S. i. 9. 11
Brundisium, now Brindisi, famous
port of Calabria, S. i. 5. 104; E.
i. 17.52; i. 18. 20
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