Note 25 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS
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tenus: here ‘fully up to.’ Jahn makes tenus an Adverb, compares Verg., Aen., 1, 737: summo tenus attigit ore, and explains messe propria vive as = consume fructus agrorum tuorum usque ad finem, quoad suppetunt.—propria: ‘Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?’