Note 40 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS
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nascentur violae: ‘Lay her i’ the earth | and from her fair and unpolluted flesh | may violets spring.’ Shaksp., Hamlet, 5, 1.—‘Rides’ ait: As in Hor., Ep., 1, 19, 43. Ait is used like inquit (G., 199, R. 3), without any definite reference.—nimis uncis | naribus indulges: ‘you are too much given to hooking, curling your nose.’ Naribus uti, Hor., Ep., 1, 19, 45; naso adunco, Hor., Sat., 1, 6, 5.