Note 380 — JUVENAL'S SATIRES. (continued 2)
Lewis Evans translation
Algentem. They had dining-rooms facing different quarters, according to the season of the year, with a southern aspect for the winter, and an eastern for the summer. Cf. Plin., ii., Ep. 17. Rapiat rather seems to imply the former case. So Badham—
"Courts the brief radiance of the winter's noon."
"Algentem" favors the other view—
"Front the cool east, when now the averted sun Through the mid ardors of his course has run." Hodgson.