BOOK XXII.
Lewis Evans translation
1 Those hired female mourners who weep at a stranger's funeral, and tear their hair, and bawl louder....[1825]
2 A slave neither faithless to my owner, nor unserviceable to any, here I, Metrophanes, lie, Lucilius' main-stay[1826]
3 Zopyrion cuts his lips on both sides....[1827]
4 ... whether the man's nose is straighter now, ... his calves and legs.
FOOTNOTES:
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · Præfica, the ἰαλεμίστρια, Æsch., Choëph., 424, or θρηνήτρια (cf. Mark, v., 38), of the Greeks; from præficiendo, as being set at the head ofNote 2 · Cf. Introduction. Mart., xi., Ep. xc., 4. Plaut., Amph., I., i., 213. Terent., Phorm., II., i., 57, "O bone custos salve, columen verò familNote 3 · Cf. ad ix., 14.