Note 6, 63 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS (continued 3)
Reading edition
63. pingitur: Ἑρμῆς κερδῷος, ‘with money-bag in hand.’ Comp. Ar., Ach., 991, 992: πῶς ἂν ἐμὲ καὶ σέ τις Ἔρως ξυναγάγοι λαβών, | ὥσπερ ὁ γεγραμμένος, ἔχων στέφανον ἀνθέμων.—vin tu gaudere relictis: Gaudere here almost = ἀγαπᾶν, ‘be thankful for whatever I shall leave you.’ According to the ordinary rules of grammar, vis would be the rhetorical, vin the genuine form of the question (G., 455), but ne can not be pinned down by strict rules, as has been remarked. See note on 1, 22.