SATIRE I. JUVENAL. v. 88—104.

When has the bosom of avarice lain open wider? When did the dice possess such spirits? For it is not with mere purses that one goes to the chance of the table, but one plays with a chest Betting an entire fortune rather than small change.. What battles you will see there, with the steward acting as armour-bearer! Is it not simple madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not give a coat to a ragged servant? Who has erected so many villas? Who has dined on seven courses in secret in the days of our ancestors? Now the little "sportula" A basket or gift of money given by patrons to their clients. sits on the first threshold, to be snatched by the gowned crowd. He, however, inspects the face first, and trembles lest you come as a substitute, and ask in a false name: once acknowledged, you will receive it. He commands the very "Trojugenae" The old Roman nobility who claimed descent from the Trojans. to be called by the crier: for they themselves trouble the threshold with us. "Give to the Praetor, give then to the Tribune." But the freedman says, "I am here first. Why should I fear, or hesitate to defend my place? Although I was born at the Euphrates A sign of the freedman's foreign/Eastern origin., which the holes in my ears show..."