Note 20 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS
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muria: was a cheap sauce, ‘made of the thynnus, and less delicate than garum, made of the scomber’ (Macleane); hence the point of buying it only as he wanted it—a small quantity at a time.—empta: Both Conington and Pretor direct us to combine empta with muria. It can not be combined with any thing else, as calice is rigidly masculine, Neue, Formenl., 1, 691.