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E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill), Poem 108 (search)
On a certain unpopular Cominins, perhaps one of two brothers from Spoletium, P. and C. or L. Cominius, who are mentioned by Cicero (Cic. Cluent. 100) as prosecutors. In the year 66 B.C. a popular tumult terrified them into giving up their prosecution of C. Cornelius, though one of them, in spite of general unpopularity, resumed it the following year, on which occasion Cornelius was defended by Cicero. cana senectus: cf. Catul. 61.162 cana anilitas . spurcata impuris moribus: the hoary head that should be a crown of glory is to him but a mark of confirmed infamy. bonorum: perhaps in the sense of optimatium (as often in Cicero), if this Cominius was one of the prosecutors. lingua exsecta: cf. Cic. Cluent. 187 Stratonem in crucem esse actum exsecta scitote lingua .
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Vespasianus (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 1 (search)
ues, which had been erected to him by the cities of that province, with this inscription: "To the honest Tax-farmer."The inscription was in Greek, kalw=s telwqh/santi He afterwards turned usurer amongst the Helvetii, and there died, leaving behind him his wife, Vespasia Polla, and two sons by her; the elder of whom, Sabinus, came to be prefect of the city, and the younger, Vespasian, to be emperor. Polla, descended of a good family, at Nursia,In the ancient Umbria. afterwards the duchy of Spoleto; its modern name being Norcia. had for her father Vespasius Pollio, thrice appointed military tribune, and at last prefect of the camp; and her brother was a senator of praetorian dignity. There is to this day, about six miles from Nursia, on the road to Spoletum, a place on the summit of a hill, called Vespasize, where are several monuments of the Vespasii, a sufficient proof of the splendour and antiquity of the family. I will not deny that some have pretended to say. that Petro's father