Note 119 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS

men: On ne in rhetorical questions, see v. 22.—nec clam— nec cum scrobe: ‘neither to myself nor with a hole in the ground for my listener.’ The negative in nefas is subdivided by nec—nec, G., 444, R. Others supply fas, G., 446, R.—nusquam: The answer of the critic, Jahn (1843). In the ed. of 1868 he writes with Hermann, nusquam? as a part of Persius’s question. The arrangement in the text seems to be more in accordance with Persius’s fashion of anticipating an answer (ἀνθυποφορά). ‘Nowhere? you say.’—scrobe: Allusion to the story of Midas and his barber, for which no reader will need to be referred to Ov., Met., 11, 180 seqq.