Note 5, 88 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS (continued 3)
Reading edition
88. Vindicta: the festuca, or ‘wand,’ with which the lictor struck the manumittend. See v. 76.—postquam recessi: with a causal tone. See note on 3, 90.—meus: ‘my own man,’ hence ‘my own master’ (G., 299, R.); mei iuris (Schol.).