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2 thing else for the roes. Yes, said Axius, and when 

 I was at O. Hortensius's near Laurentum I saw the 

 same thing done more in the Thracian ' fashion, for 

 there was a wood there of more than fifty iugera 

 (thirty-three acres) according to Hortensius, sur- 

 rounded by a wall, and this enclosure he did not 

 call a hare warren, but a theriotrophion (place for 

 feeding animals). There, on an eminence on which 

 a dining-table and couches were set we dined, and 



3 our host summoned Orpheus ' to appear. He came, 



fanciful resemblance between a wrestling school and the place 

 where the boars jostled one another as they made for their 

 food. A palaestrita would make excellent sense "by their 

 trainer," and might be supported by Martial (iii, 82) : Partitur 

 apri glandulas palaestrita. A palaestrita is mentioned also 

 in Martial's account of a Roman farmhouse (iii, 58). The 

 "trainer" would be the subulcus of ii, 4, 20, who had to 

 "train them to do everything in obedience to the sound of 

 the horn." 



' Op^Kuiiii. Keil's certain emendation for the magis tragicos 

 of the Archetype. The attendant took the part of the Thracian 

 Orpheus whose music had power to tame wild animals. Cf. 

 Horace (A. P., 391): 



Stives tres homines sacer interprcsque Deorum 

 Caedibus et victufoedo deterruil Orpheus: 

 Dictus ob hoc lenire tigres rabidosque leones. 



^ Orpheus . . . cum stola. In Rome the stola was of course 

 the dress of respectable Roman matrons. The Greek word 

 rroXi7, however, applies to almost any garment, even to the 

 lion's skin worn by Hercules (cf. Eurip. H. F. 465) iv <TTo\y, 

 Onp^i — but generally means a robe. The glorious statue of 

 the Apollo (Orphcus's father) Citharoedus in the Vatican shows 

 liim wearing the long Ionian stola, and with a cithara in his 

 hand. 



