Note 82 — CHEAP BOOKS AND PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
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“Lucri bonus est odor, ex re Qualibet.”—Juvenal, Sat. XIV. 204, 205.
An allusion to the familiar anecdote of Vespasian: “Reprehendenti filio Tito, quod etiam urinæ vectigal commentus esset, pecuniam ex prima pensione admovit ad nares, sciscitans, num odore offenderetur; et illo negante, ‘Atqui,’ inquit, ‘e lotio est.’”—Suetonius, Vespasianus, c. 23. See the Commentators generally.