[3700] Lit., "passages of ways."

[3701] Lit., "substitute."

[3702] So the later edd., reading botulos; the ms. and early edd. give boletos—"mushrooms."

[3703] For his, Heinsius proposes hiris—"with the intestines."

[3704] Lit., "in a frozen condition." As to the meaning of this there is difference of opinion: some supposing that it means, as above, preserved by means of ice, or at least frozen; while others interpret figuratively, "as hard as ice." [Our Scottish translators have used their local word, "iced haggises:" I have put puddings instead, which gives us, at least, an idea of something edible. To an American, what is iced conveys the idea of a drink. The budinarius, heretofore noted, probably made these iced saucisses.]

[3705] Lit., "things"—res.

[3706] Scabilla were a kind of rattles or castanets moved by the feet.

[3707] Sambuca, not corresponding to the modern triangle, but a stringed instrument of that shape. Its notes were shrill and disagreeable, and those who played on it of indifferent character.

[3708] So the ms. and first four edd., reading virilitatem sui populo publicarent. Meursius emended utilitatem—"made common the use," etc.; and Orelli, from the margin of Ursinus, vilitatem—"their vileness."

[3709] The ms. reads in fornicibus obvi-t-ae, which, dropping t, is the reading translated, and was received by Elmenhorst, LB., and Hildebrand, from the margin of Ursinus. The other edd. insert nc before t—"bound."

[3710] The translation does not attempt to bring out the force of the words ad oris stuprum paratæ, which are read by Orelli after Ursinus and Gelenius. The text is so corrupt, and the subject so obscene, that a bare reference to the practice may be sufficient.