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Compare this with the concluding sentence of the preceding chapter. Celebritate et frequentia. 0fficio==salutatione. Dr. Brevi osculo, lit. a hasty kiss==cold and formal salutation. The kiss was a common mode of salutation among the Romans, in the age of the Emperors. See Becker's Gallus, p. 54. Turbae servientium. The usual and characteristic associates, as well as attendants of Domitian.
Nec ut jussi. Not precisely at the appointed time, but a day or two later, if they choose. Ut turbae placuit. Ut==simul ac, as soon as, when.
Luke v. 1-11: Factum est autem cum turbae irruereut in eum et ipse stabat secus stagnum Gennesareth: et vidit duas naves.... Ascendens in unam navem quae erat Simonis... dixit ad Simonem, Duc in altum, et laxate retia vestra in capturam. Et cum hoc fecissent concluserunt piscium multitudinem copiosam.... Et impleverunt ambas naviculas ita ut mergerentur.
Recumbens cum fratribus Observata lege plena Cibis in legalibus Cibum turbae duodenae Se dat suis manibus ....
Tradiderat interim Agricola successori suo provinciam quietam tutamque. Ac, ne notabilis celebritate et frequentia occurrentium introitus esset, vitato amicorum officio, noctu in urbem, noctu in palatium, ita ut praeceptum erat, venit: exceptusque brevi osculo et nullo sermone turbae servientium immixtus est.
Sedes, opposed to the triclinia, on which the Romans used to recline, a practice as unknown to the rude Germans, as to the early Greeks and Hebrews. See Coler. Stud. of Gr. Negotia. Plural==their various pursuits. So Cic. de Or. 2, 6: forensia negotia. Negotium==nec-otium, C. and G. being originally identical, as they still are almost in form. Armati. Cf. note, 11: ut turbae placuit.
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