Note 60 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS

linguae: The thrusting out of the tongue in derision is as common now as it was then.—canis Apula: Apulia was the δίψιον Ἄργος of Italy. Siticulosae Apuliae, Hor., Epod., 3, 16.—tantae: So Jahn and Herm. ‘Tongues big enough to represent the thirst of an Apulian hound’ (Pretor). Jahn compares for the construction, Luc., 1, 259: quantum rura silent, tanta quies. Conington considers tantum ‘much neater,’ and makes quantum sitiat = quantum sitiens protendat, ‘a length of tongue protruded like an Apulian dog in the dog-days.’