Note 3, 112 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS (continued 4)
Reading edition
112. durum holus: ‘tough cabbage,’ ‘half boiled’ (Pretor).—populi (= plebis) cribro: ‘A coarse, common sieve.’ Hence p. c. decussa farina, ‘coarse-bolted flour,’ the panis secundus of Horace, Ep., 2, 1, 123, the ‘seconds’ of the modern miller. The ancients were very dainty in this article. The parasite in Alciphron (1, 21, 2) expresses his disgust at the ἀρτος ὁ ἐξ ἀγορας.