Note 5 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS

mox: points to another side of Bassus’s poetry, the non-lyrical, probably satires, for one Bassus in satyris, mentioned by Fulgentius (ap. Jahn), is most likely our man, despite Jahn’s objections.—iocis: Heinrich, ex coni. The passage is a very difficult one. The interpretation turns on the two words, iocos (or iocis), senes (or senex), as the reading egregios for egregius may be discarded.