Note 65 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS
Reading edition
quid opus: G., 390, R.; A., 52, 3, a.—Cratero: More bookishness. Craterus was a famous physician of the time of Cicero. Hor., Sat., 2, 3, 161.—magnos promittere montis: A proverbial phrase, which survives in several modern languages: Fr. monts et merveilles; Germ. goldene Berge versprechen. Jahn compares Ter., Phormio, 1, 2, 18: modo non montis auri pollicens; Heinr., Sall., Cat. 23: maria montisque polliceri coepit.