Note 804 — Chapter V · PERSIUS: STOIC SATIRE
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Pretor, C.R., xxi. (1907) pp. 72 sqq., argues that the choliambics are a prologue, and, being intended as a blind to safeguard the author against Nero’s vengeance for alleged allusions to the emperor, contain deliberate untruths, e.g. that the writer has no capacity for authorship and is only half-educated or at least provincial (semi-paganus).