Note 158 — Chapter IV
Reading edition
Yates, pp. 79, 91, 93, 99, 102, 445. Lanæ Albæ.
“The first, Apulia’s; next is Parma’s boast; And the third fleece Altinum has engrossed.” Martial, xiv. Ep. 155.
Martial also speaks of the matchless Tarentine togæ, a present from Parthenius:—
“With thee the lily and the privet pale Compared, and Tibur’s whitest ivory fail; The Spartan swan, the Paphian doves deplore Their hue, and pearls on the Erythrean shore.” Martial, viii. Ep. 28.