Note 2, 19 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS (continued 4)
Reading edition
19. ‘cuinam?’ cuinam? The first cuinam is the question of the other man, the second the echo of Persius. Comp. Ar., Ach., 594: ἀλλὰ τίς γὰρ εἶ; Δ. ὅστις; πολίτης χρηστός.—vis: Comp. 1, 56.—Staio: Staius can not be identified—homuncio nobis ignotus (König)—and, as Jahn admirably remarks, it makes no difference who he was, whether Staienus, as the scholiast says (Cic., Verr., 2, 32, 79; pro Cluentio, 7, 24, 65), or an average Philistine, or a typical scoundrel. The name was a common one. Jones is measured with Jupiter.—an scilicet haeres: ‘what? are we to suppose that you are hesitating?’