Note 42 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS

caedimus, etc.: Hor., Ep., 2, 2, 97: caedimur et totidem plagis consumimus hostem (Casaubon). The resemblance here, as often elsewhere, is merely verbal, as in Horace ‘the passage of arms is a passage of compliments’ (Conington).—praebemus: ‘expose,’ ‘present.’