Note 75 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS
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et piper et pernae: The piper is not the Indian, but the inferior Italian (Plin., H. N., 12, 7, 4; 16, 32, 59) (Meister). Pernae, a stock present. Comp. siccus petasunculus et vas | pelamydum, Juv., 7, 119. To supply putet with piper is not satisfactory, and we must take refuge in Zeugma. Pretor is for dropping v. 75, and sees in Persius’s awkwardness traces of a duplex recensio, as in vv. 12-14.—Marsi: For the simplicity of the Marsians, Jahn compares Juv., 3, 169; 14, 180.