ad gpecnlum tonsi, i.e. who sat with a handglass held
before him, like a woman, while the tonsor dressed his hair
and Slaved his beard — 'the student of the barber's handglass.'
Tonsus is used in its widest sense, as tonsor means not only a
barber but a hairdresser as well. Seneca describes this kind of
fops: de Brev. vitae, c. 12, § 3, **Quibtis dpud tonsorem multae
horae transmitUintur...dum de singulis capillis in consilium
itur...quomodo irascuntur si tonsor paullo neglegentior fuit tan-
quam virum tonderet ? (i.e. forgetting that his patient is a man)
...Quis est istorum qui rum malit rempublicam suam turbari
quam comam?...hos tu otiosos vocas inter pectinem speculumque
occupatos f" On the tonsor es see Bam say B. A. p. 455, and on
the mirrors Becker Gallus, p. 296. Suetonius, Otho, c. 12,
describes Otho's extreme anxiety about the smoothness of his
face, and says that he used a daily bread poultice for the pur-
pose, *pane madido linere consv^tum.*

4. togatae. The toga was the dress of meretrices. The
stola of Boman matrons, x. 5. 1.
5. Bponsa. His appearance was so effeminate that a lady
might mistake him for one of her own sex. Sit must be sup-
plied to/Iii».
9. urblsqae forlque. That is, the leading men in the
senate, such as Sura, and at the bar, such as Begulus.
10. perpetvl, 'immortal.' Of. vn. 63. 1.
Sm. Of. IV. 14. 1.
304 NOTES. VI. Ixiv. 10—27.
dlfi^nantur. Used absolutely. So Statins Theb. xii. 785^
orant mccedere muris Difffiarique domos, probably an ellipse of
an infinitive. Justin. 41. 4, nullo Macedonum Parthorum^ im-
perium dignante extemo socio traditur,

Bcrlnla. CI i. 66. 6, 2. 4.
11. Begnlvs. Cf. i. 12.
