Note 1, 74 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS (continued 2)

74. cum dictatorem induit: So Jahn (1843). Decidedly the easiest reading, but the best in connection with terens. In his ed. of 1868, Jahn reads quem dictatorem. Hermann objects to the expression, and insists on dictaturam, appealing in his preface to Plin., H. N., 18, 3, 20, for dictaturam in the sense of vestem dictatoriam. Surely, to ‘robe dictator’ and to ‘robe with the dictatorship’ are not far apart, and the former is the more striking expression.—trepida: ‘flurried.’ See v. 20.—ante boves: is supposed to give local coloring, and to bring before us the ‘slow, bovine gaze’ of the astonished cattle.