Note 5, 114 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS (continued 4)
Reading edition
114. -que ac: a rare combination.—praetoribus ac Iove dextro: a kind of Zeugma = praetoribus [auctoribus] et Iove dextro, ‘by the grace of the praetors and Jove.’ The Jupiter here meant is the Iuppiter Liberator (Ζεὺς ἐλευθέριος), so famous in connection with the death of Persius’s friend, Thrasea Paetus, Tac., Ann., 16, 35. See Introd., xiii.