Note 47 — OF THE POPULOUSNESS OF ANCIENT NATIONS.[39]
Reading edition
Verna is used by the Roman writers as a word equivalent to scurra, on account of the petulance and impudence of those slaves. (Mart., lib. 1, ep. 42.) Horace also mentions the vernæ procaces; and Petronius (cap. 24), vernula urbanitas. Seneca (de provid., cap. 1), vernularum licentia.