Note v. 76 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS (continued 3)
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76. vertigo: the ‘twirl’ of the familiar process of manumissio per vindictam. ‘The lictor touched the slave with the vindicta, the master turning him round and “dismissing him from his hand” with the words Hunc hominem liberum esse volo’ (Conington).—facit: is causal as well as faciat. G., 627, R.; A., 63.—Dama: Δημᾶς = Δημήτριος; according to others for Δημέας (Mehlhorn, Gr. Gr., 183), a common slave’s name.—non tressis: Jahn comp. non semissis homo, Vatin. ap. Cic., Fam., 5, 10, 1.