god
Marsyas
also: Marsya
The satyr of myth, whose statue stood in the Roman Forum near the lawyers' and bankers' haunts; Horace jokes that the statue's pained expression means it cannot bear the moneylender Novius's face.
Reading notes
- The Satires §1.6 before Marsyas
A statue of the satyr Marsyas stood in the Forum near the bankers' and lawyers' quarter; its anguished look, Horace jokes, is distaste for the moneylender Novius.