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Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), The Works of Horace (ed. C. Smart, Theodore Alois Buckley), book 1, He describes a certain journey of his from Rome to Brundusium with great pleasantry. (search)
popello, which were closed before, and without any purple border. They were called tunicae rectae. his praetexta, laticlave, and pan of incense. Prunaeque batillum. A pan for incense, frequently carried before the emperors, of those possessed of the sovereign authority. At our next stage, being weary, we tarry in the city of the Mamurrae, The stroke of satire here is of a delicate and almost imperceptible malignity. Formiae, the city which Horace means, belonged to the Lamian family, whose antiquity was a great honor to it. But our poet paraphrases it by the name of a person, who was born there, and who has made his country famous in a very different manner. Mamurra was a Roman knight, who was infamous for his rapine, luxury and debauchcry. Catullus calls him Decoctor Formianus. Murena complimenting us with his house, Murena was brother of Licymnia, married afterwa