The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius. Sulpicia

      "Are these then fictions? and would satire's rage

       Sweep in Iambic pomp the tragic stage

       With stately Sophocles, and sing of deeds

       Strange to Rutulian skies and Latian meads?" Badham.

[324] Pontia, daughter of Titus Pontius, and wife of Drymis, poisoned her two children, and afterward committed suicide. The fact was duly inscribed on her tomb. Cf. Mart., vi., Ep. 75.

[325] Tamen. Heinrich proposes to read "tantum."

[326] Alcestim.

      "Alcestis, lo! in love's calm courage flies

       To yonder tomb where, else, Admetus dies,

       While those that view the scene, a lapdog's breath

       Would cheaply purchase by a husband's death." Badham.

[327] Insulsam.

      "But here the difference lies—those bungling wives

       With a blunt axe hack'd out their husbands' lives." Gifford.

[328] Ter victi, by Sylla, Lucullus, and Pompey. Cf. xiv., 452, "Eme quod Mithridates Composuit si vis aliam decerpere ficum Atque alias tractare rosas."