Note 115 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS
Reading edition
sin: ‘(if not) but if,’ G., 593; A., 59, 1, a; Ribbeck, l.c. 14.—cum: ‘whereas,’ ‘after,’ adversative.—nostrae farinae: ‘one of our grain, batch, set,’ ‘one of our kidney’—doubtless a proverbial expression. The metaphor is taken from the mill or from the bakery. The batch referred to is the Stoic school. Of course the statement is ironical. ‘Whereas (to judge by your bold pretensions to liberty) you were a little while ago in our set.’