Note v. 33 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS (continued 3)
Reading edition
33. permisit sparsisse: On the Inf., see G., 532, R. 1; A., 70, 3, a. On the tense, note on 1, 41. With the phraseology, Jahn comp. Val. Flacc., 5, 247: tua nunc terris, tua lumina toto | sparge mari. Spargere is a happy word for a rapid, roving glance.—iam: ἤδη. The English idiom often refuses to give the exact force of iam. The youngster has got a ‘sure enough’ candidus umbo. The contrast in time is the former praetexta.— candidus umbo: ‘Umbo was the knot into which the folds of the toga were gathered after passing the left shoulder’ (Pretor). Of course the umbo was candidus, as the toga was.