A New And Literal Translation of Juvenal And Persius: With ..., volume 1
A New And Literal Translation of Juvenal And Persius: With ..., volume 1
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Tie youihsJ] The sons — ^now grown young men— -juvenes. Such people as these were entitled to seats in the fourteen rows of the equestrian order, on account of their estates: while sons of nobles, and gentlemen of rank, were turned out because their in«» come did not come up to what was required, by Otho's law, to con- stitute a knight's estate. jifencer,'\ Lanlsta signifies a fencing-master, one that taught boys to fence. 159. Thus it pleased vain Otho.'] q, d. No sound or good reason . could ...be given for this ; it was the mere whim of a vain man, who established this distinction, from his own caprice and fancy, and to gratify his own pride and vanity. However, Otho's law not only distinguished the knights from the plebeians, but the knights of birth from those who were advanced to that dignity by their fortunes or serrice ; giving to the former the first rows on the equestrian benches. Therefore Hor. epod. iv, where he tneats in the severest manner Menas, the freedman of Cn. Fompdns, who had been advanced to a knight's estate, mentions it as one instanee of his insolence and pride, that he sat himself in one of the first rows after he became possessed of a knight's estate.
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