Note 25 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS

quaesieris: G., 250; A., 60, 2, b; ἔροιτ᾽ ἄν τις. Persius gets away from Socrates and Alcibiades into a land of shadowy second persons. One of these is supposed to ask another whether he knows a certain estate. The casual question leads to a caustic characteristic of the owner, which is interrupted by another indefinite character, who quotes an ignotus aliquis, and the general impression at the close is that every body is violently preached at except the son of Dinomache, with whom we started.—Vettidi: With the characteristic of Vettidius, comp. Horace’s Avidienus (cui canis cognomen, Sat., 2, 2, 55), and the ἀνελεύθερος and the μικρολόγος of Theophrastus.