Note 115 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS
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Lupe, Muci: L. Cornelius Lentulus Lupus Cons. A.U.C. 598, and P. Mucius Scaevola Cons. A.U.C. 621, Juv., 1, 154.—genuinum: ‘Breaking the back-tooth’ shows the eagerness with which the satirist gnawed the bones of his victims. Comp. Petron., 58: venies sub dentem, ‘you will be “chawed” up.’