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NOTES, IV. Ixi. 1— Ixi^. 4. 273

LXI. Mancinas is always boasting of the presents he re-
ceives from Mends, esp. lady friends. The boasts were probably
false, because from iy. 37 he appears to have been in debt to
Afer.
1. dncenta. Cf. nr. 37. 1.
3. qnartoB dies est ... dlxti. Conversational for Q. d. est
quum or ex quo dixti.
sohola. Cf. III. 20. 8.
5. lacernas. Cf. ii. 29. 4.
6. sardonydia. Cf. ii. 29. 2.
vemm. Imitation sardonyxes were made either by apply-
ing a red hot iron to a sard, and so producing the white surlace
pecuhar to the sardonyx, or by joining the stones together, and
so producing an imitation of the Arabian sardonyx — ^in which
there were tluree layers of colour — ^blue-black, white, and red.
Probably also they were imitated in glass.
lydmldemque cerlten. If this is the true reading, it is im-
possible to say whether lychnis qualifies cerites^ or vice versa.
They are represented by Pliny as two distinct stones, 37 §§ 103,
133. The lychnis was probably the ruby.
Another reading is lineisqtte ter cinctumt which would be
another way of describing the Sardonyx AraMcus, This reading
is preferred by Friedlauder (Becensio locorum, Ac).
7. mazlB. Cf. IV. 28. 4.
8. Ba8sam...0aeliam. Two orhcu.
9. POllone, a celebrated citharoedus of the day. Juv. vii.
176.
12. et *And then 200,000 more, 100,000 in the morning
and 100,000 in the afternoon.'

Some editions have et post, which would rather require
dttcenta in the previous lina Without the et before post, the
two hundreds are couple«l as one grou^to the three hundred.
LXTV. In praise of the villa of Julius Martialis (i. 15, ni.
