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A literary history of Rome in the Silver Age

Note 840 — Chapter V · PERSIUS: STOIC SATIRE

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V. 13: “nec scloppo (? stloppo) tumidas intendis rumpere buccas.” The loan-words from vulgar Latin in Persius (e.g. diminutives and obscenities) are such as occur in comedy and satirists like Lucilius and Horace. He also shares colloquialisms (ebullire, etc.) with contemporaries like Petronius in the Satyricon and Seneca in the Apocolocyntosis.

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