Note 25 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS
Reading edition
iecore: the seat of the passions. Here ‘heart’ or ‘breast’ would seem to be more appropriate.—caprificus: the wild fig-tree sprouts in the clefts of rocks and cracks of buildings, which it rends in its growth. Ad quae | discutienda valent mala robora fici, Juv., 10, 145.