Note 45 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS
Reading edition
grandia: ‘sublime.’ Grandia verba is the American ‘tall talk.’—nollem: Iterative conditional. G., 569, R. 2; A., 59, 5, b.—morituri Catonis: Such compositions were very much in vogue as rhetorical exercises. Comp. Juv., 1, 16 (oration to Sulla, advising a withdrawal from public life); 7, 161 (speech made for Hannibal). Seneca (Ep., 24, 6) does not seem to regard the theme of Cato’s death as threadbare.