The swarm of homebred slaves, a sign of rustic opulence, sit at supper near the fire in the atrium, while the wooden images of the Lares, polished and gleaming in the firelight, seem to smile upon the scene. Cf. Sat. 2. 6. 66, quibus . . . ante Larem proprium vescor vernasque procacis | pasco libatis dapibus; Tibull. 2. 1. 23, turbaque vernarum, saturi bona signa coloni; Martial, 3.58.22; 4.66.10.
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Horace. Odes and Epodes. Edited with commentary by. Paul Shorey. revised by. Paul Shorey and Gordon J. Laing. New York. Benj. H. Sanborn and Co. 1910.
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