Note 100 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS
Reading edition
certo conpescere puncto, etc.: ‘although you do not know how to check [that is, to bring to the perpendicular and keep there] the tongue or index [of the steelyard by putting the equipoise or pea] at a certain point.’ ‘Although you do not know how to use the steelyard’ (statera). On the examen, see 1, 6; punctum is one of the points or notches (notae) on the graduated arm. With nescius conpescere comp. callidus suspendere, 1, 118, and Prol., 11.—natura = lex, as above.