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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius

Note 497 — JUVENAL'S SATIRES. (continued 2)

Lewis Evans translation

Ancilla natus. Servius Tullius (Cf. vii., 199) was the sen of Ocrisia, or Ocriculana, a captive from Corniculum. Liv., i., 39. The Trabea was a white robe with a border and broad stripes (trabes) of purple, worn afterward by consuls and augurs: cf. x., 35; the diadema of the ancient kings was a fillet or ribbon, not a crown.

"And he who graced the purple which he wore, The last good king of Rome, a bondmaid bore." Gifford.

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