Note 5 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS

ante pilos: ‘before your beard.’ ‘A contrast with barbatum magistrum’ (Conington), but b. can hardly be used in the same breath as the mark of mature years and as the ensign of a philosopher.—venit: On the number, see G., 281, Exc. 2; A., 49, 1, b.—dicenda tacendaque: Comp. Hor., Ep., 1, 7, 72—dicenda tacenda locutus—for the expression. For the sense, Conington comp. Aeschylus, Cho., 582: σιγᾶν ὅπου δεῖ καὶ λέγειν τὰ καίρια. In Horace it means ‘all sorts of things;’ here, ‘what you must say, what leave unsaid.’