Note 110 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS

per me: ‘for all I care,’ ἐμοῦ γ᾽ ἕνεκα, a familiar use of the preposition per: per me habeat licet, Plaut., Mercat., 5, 4, 29.—equidem: Not for ego quidem, although this opinion affected the practice of Cicero, Horace, Vergil, Quintilian, the younger Pliny. Sallust, like Varro, combines equidem with every person. So Ribbeck (l.c. S. 36), who derives equidem from e interj. and quidem. Conington tries to save the rule here by making the expression equivalent to equidem concedo. Another exception is found 5, 45, where C. goes through the same legerdemain: non equidem dubites, ‘I would not have you doubt.’—alba: ‘lovely,’ ‘whitewash them as much as you please.’