CHAPTER 42. _Varro_ (Marcus Terentius), 116-28 B.C. The most learned

and voluminous of Roman authors.

_an image of Mercury._ Clearly the reference is to some such practice as that of 'screeing' in the ink-pool. Cp. Kinglake, Eothen, chap. 18.

_Cato_ (the famous Marcus Cato, see chap. 17, note) was priest of Apollo and received offerings to the god.