Note 2, 31 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS (continued 4)

31. Ecce: transitioni servit (Casaubon). See 1, 30. The showman puts in a new slide, and says ‘Look here.’—avia aut matertera: The doting fondness of grandmothers, aunts, and nurses is proverbial. Their affection is not tempered by responsibility; hence their indiscretion. Matertera is the mother’s sister, as amita (whence ‘aunt’) the father’s; but, significantly enough, there is not the same moral distinction as between patruus and avunculus (whence ‘uncle’).—metuens divum: δεισιδαίμων. G., 374, R. 1; A., 50, 3, b.—cunis: Dat. is more picturesque than Abl.