Note 140 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS

pellem: simply ‘a skin,’ which might serve as many purposes as a modern traveller’s shawl. Jahn interprets it as meaning a sort of packing cloth (segestre), and compares Petron., 102. This is much more likely than the pastoria pellis of Ov., Met., 2, 680, the βαίτη of Theocr., 3, 25, elsewhere called νάκος, 5, 2, ‘a peasant’s coat of raw hide.’—succinctus: ‘high girt,’ hence ‘equipped.’—oenophorum: ‘a wine case.’ Comp. Hor., Sat., 1, 6, 109: pueri lasanum portantes oenophorumque.