Note 3, 48 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS (continued 3)

48. iure: εἰκότως, ‘and well I might.’—etenim: is καὶ γάρ. Theoretically the predicate of the preceding sentence is to be repeated with the et. Practically it is often best to leave et untranslated. G., 500, R. 2 and 3; A., 43, 3, d.—senio, etc.: ‘The game was played with four tali, which, unlike the tesserae, were rounded on two sides, while the other four faces were marked with one, three, four, or six pips, and called respectively unio, ternio, quaternio, senio. The canis was the worst throw, when all four tali showed single pips (Ov., A. A., 2, 206; Trist., 2, 474; Mart., 13, 1, 6; Prop., 4, 8, 46), and the Venus the best, when all the faces turned up were different (Lucian, Amor., p. 415); or else, for it varied upon occasion, when all showed sices. The ace was a losing throw and the sice a winning one, when the pips were counted’ (Pretor, after Jahn). Persius wanted to know the value of each throw, what one brought in (ferret) another swept off (raderet).