Note 180 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS
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Herodis—dies: Probably Herod’s birthday, celebrated by the sect of the Herodians. Persius takes Herod as the most familiar Jewish personage to indicate Jewish superstition. On the spread of Judaism in the Roman Empire, see Friedländer, Sittengesch., 3, 489.—uncta fenestra: The ‘window’ is ‘greasy’ from the oil-lamps.