Note 5 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS
Reading edition
at bona pars: Comp. Hor., Sat., 1, 1, 61: at bona pars hominum.—libabit: Gnomic or sententious future. See 3, 93. Jahn comp. Juv., 8, 182: quae | turpia cerdoni Volesos Brutumque decebunt. ‘That which is done is that which shall be done.’ The other reading, libavit (gnomic Perfect), is not so good. See G., 228, R. 2, and Dräger, Histor. Synt. der lat. Sprache, § 127.