[1]: About two hundred and forty pounds.
[2]: These lines are from Ennius's tragedy of Medea, being very nearly a translation of the first lines of the Medea of Euripides.
[3]: See Smith, Dict, Ant p. 583, v. Lupercalia.
[4]: Caecilius, one of the old Roman comic writers, from one of whose plays these lines are taken.
[5]: Scabillum is the Latin word. “Scabillum, a kind of musical instrument which by the pressure of the foot always produced the same tone. They danced to it on the stage, and it seems to have been used to denote the beginning and end of an act.”—Riddle, Lat. Dict. in voc.
[6]: It is quite unknown to as what these allusions of Cicero to passing events refer to.
[7]: This refers to Clodius having set on fire the temple of the Nymphs, where the registers of the censors were kept.