Note 35 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS
Reading edition
acre | despuat: ‘empty acrid spittle,’ sc. on you. Others read in mores with Jahn (1843). Jahn (1868) reads with Hermann, Hi mores. Of course it is impossible to analyze this spittle, which flows to the end of v. 41. See the Introduction to the Satire. ‘Persium,’ as Quintilian says of Horace, in quibusdam nolim interpretari (1, 8, 6). This is one of the passages that called down on our author the rebuke of that verecund gentleman Pierre Bayle: Les Satires de Perse sont dévergondées.