]
[Footnote 5: _To pay your taxes_)--Ver. 15. By this he shows that
the party whom he is addressing, is either one of the lowest plebeians
or a slave. In the assessment or census, which was made by the Censors,
the slaves were not numbered at all, being supposed to have no "caput,"
or "civil condition." The lowest century were the "proletarii," whose
only qualification was the being heads of families, or fathers of
children. In addressing those who are reckoned in the census "ope
vestra," "by your means" or "circumstances," he seems to be rebuking the
"proletarii," who had no such standing, and who probably formed the most
noisy part of the audience. As these paid no part of the taxes with
which the theatres were in part supported, of course they would be
placed at a greater distance from the stage, and probably were not
accommodated with seats. It was just about this period that the elder
Scipio assigned different places in the theatres to the various classes
of the people.]
[Footnote 6: _Listen to the rest_)--Ver. 16. "Reliquum" was a term
which either signified generally, "what is left," or money borrowed and
still unpaid. He plays upon these different meanings--"Accipite
reliquum," which may either signify "hear the rest" or "take what is due
and owing," and he then makes the observation, parenthetically, "alieno
uti nil moror," "I don't care to be in debt.
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