Note 819 — Chapter V · PERSIUS: STOIC SATIRE
Reading edition
Hor., A.P., 102:
“Si uis me flere, dolendum est Primum ipsi tibi”;
Pers. I. 91:
“Verum nec nocte paratum Plorabit qui me uolet incuruasse querela.”
Other phrases in Persius’s first satire which may be instructively compared with their Horatian bases are l. 43: “scombros metuentia carmina”; l. 64: “ut per leue seueros effundat iunctura ungues”; l. 106: “pluteum caedit nec demorsos sapit ungues.”