[DD DD DDD DDDDDDDDDODDODDDDDDDDDDDDD DDDD DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD I DDDDDDDDDD DOO FAFAFAFAFAFAFAFAFAFAFAFAFAFAFAAFAFAFA 142 PERSONÆ HORATIANÆ. consented to the death of his brother. He was allowed DDD DDDD *|*|*|*|*|*|*|*|** PERSONÆ HORATIANE. DDDDDDDDD 143 He was accused of adultery with Mævia Galla, and laughed L. MUNAT. L. F. L. N. L. PRON. PLANCVS. COS. CENS. IMP. ITER VII. VIR. EPUL. TRIVMPH. EX. RAETIS. AEDEM. SATVRNI. to MUNATIUS.-Epist. 1. iii. 31. Unknown; possibly son of the above. MURENA, L. LICINIUS. Carm. II. X.; III. xix. 11. nas. MUSA, ANTONIUS.-Epist. I. xv. 3. Antonius Musa immortalized his name by the famous cure which he wrought on Augustus, whose freed-man he was; for the physicians of the great were, at that time, chiefly slaves, and learned medicine for the benefit of their masters' family. The malady of the Emperor was an obstinate attack of gout, attended with constipation and weakness, so as to threaten total exhaustion. His ordinary physician, Æmilius, had pledged himself to drive out the disease, by warm and vapour baths. He went so far as to cover the ceiling of the patient's chamber with furs; but the malady grew worse. Augustus was so reduced that he set his house in order, when the lucky thought occurred to Musa, since warm water had done no good, to try cold. The general opinion was strongly against him; but the state of the patient seemed to justify a desperate experiment. Musa set to work in the opposite way to his predecessor; ordered a cooling diet; let the Emperor eat hardly anything but lettuces, and drink cold water; and constantly poured cold water over him. He succeeded so well that Augustus recovered in a short time, and, notwithstanding his feeble constitution, lived thirty-six years after. (Sueton. in Oct. c. 59, 81. Plin. Hist. Nat. xxix. 1. Dion. lii. p. 517.) Musa received, besides a large sum of money from Augustus and the Senate, a statue, with the privilege of wearing a gold ring, which gave him the rights of the equestrian order: and cold water came so much into vogue, that the warm baths of Baix were less resorted to. Horace, who, at the time he wrote this Epistle, was about forty-six or fortyseven, began to suffer from defluxions, particularly in his eyes; and since the baths at Baix did him no good, was persuaded by Musa to try the cold baths at Clusium and Gabii; and this plan was so successful (as we may conclude from the cheerful tone of this whole Epistle), that, to secure himself from a relapse, he thought of nothing but providing himself with warm winter-quarters. Wieland, Horazens Briefe, i. 230. MUTUS.-Epist. 1. xv. 3. A rich man; unknown. MYSTES.-Carm. II. ix. 9. See "Valgius," "Poets." NEVIUS.-Sat. II. ii. 68. his slaves have their own way, guests. sage. A simple man, who let and serve dirty water to his NASICA. Sat. II. v. 5. Unknown, but from this pas NASIDIENUS.-Sat. II. viii. No doubt an imaginary person, though there may be a covert allusion to some real character. He is the impersonation of a vulgar rich man, at the same time ostentatious and mean, prodigal and avaricious, aspiring to live with the great and the cultivated, with Maecenas, and the distinguished poets of the day, but so dull as to be unconscious that he is the object of their contempt, and the butt of the coarser wit of their followers. He has, however, his parasites, his Nomentanus and his Porcius, to admire his magnificence. Nasidienus is a character of all times. NATTA.-Sat. 1. vi. 124. A dirty fellow, who robbed the lamps of oil to drink. NEERA.-Carm. III. xiv. 21. Epod. xv. NEARCHUS.-Carm. 111. xx. 6. NEOBULE.-Carm. III. xii. NERIUS.-Sat. 11. iii. 69. A well-known usurer. NERO, CLAUDIUS. See "Tiberius." NERONES.-C. IV. iv. 28. Tiberius and Drusus, the step-sons of Augustus. NOMENTANUS.-Sat. 1. i. 102; 1. viii. 111; ш. i. 22; II. iii. 175, 224; II. viii. 23, &c. A prodigal who had wasted an inconceivable sum on gluttony and lust. Sallust, the historian, is said to have bought his cook for 100,000,000 H.S. He is one of the guests in the supper of Nasidienus. NOTHUS.-Carm. III. xv. 11. NOVIUS. Sat. I. iii. 21; 1. vi. 40. Unknown. NOVIUS MINOR.-Sat. 1. vi. 121. An ugly usurer, always early at business near the statue of Marsyas. NUMICIUS.-Epist. 1. vi. A youth, of what family or of what rank is entirely unknown. There was a family of Numicii, of whom two persons only are named in history: 1. Numicius Priscus, Consul, v. c. 285; and 2. Numicius Thermus, Prætor, under Claudius, or Nero, a victim to the hatred of Tigellinus (Tac. Ann. xvi. 20). Wieland has drawn a fanciful character of this Numicius, by impersonating all the weaknesses and follies on which the Poet dwells, and supposing that the whole was intended as a moral lesson to Numicius. Numicius at once affected philosophy, love of the fine arts, pleasure, wealth, birth. But all this turns the gentle urbanity of Horace in his Epistle to bitter satire. Of Numicius we know nothing more than that he stood so high in the poet's regard and esteem, as to have his name inscribed in this pleasing poem. NUMIDA PLOTIUS.-Carm. I. xxxvi. This Ode celebrates the return of Plotius, after ten years' absence, from the Cantabrian wars, in which he had been engaged with Augustus. The friendship of Horace for Plotius has alone preserved his memory. He is not the Plotius (Tucca) of the Satires. NUMENIUS VALA.-Epist. I. XV. There are coins with |