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The Satires of A. Persius Flaccus

Note 25 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS

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sulpure sacro: ‘lightning.’ Comp. the Greek θεῖον, once innocently derived from the Adjective θεῖος.—tuque domusque: Comp. Juv., 13, 206: cum prole domoque. The editors cite the oracle in Herod., 6, 86, 3: πᾶσαν | συμμάρψας ὀλέσει γενεὴν καὶ οἶκον ἅπαντα.

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