a pompous, blustering advocate, ridiculed by Juvenal and Martial. To see such a niun stretched out at full length in a new lectica for which he had probably not paid, excited the indignation of the satirist:--
" Nam quis iniquae
Tam patiens urbis, tam ferreus, ut teneat se,
Causidici nova
quum veniat lectica Mathonis,
Plena ipso ? "
(Matho
deficit, which refers to his refusing to pay his debts, not to his being poor, as
Ruperti interprets it; 11.34, where he is called bucca ; Martial,