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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius

Note 1906 — BOOK XXVIII.

Lewis Evans translation

Sarcinator. Plaut., Aul., III., v., 41. Cento, "a patchwork coverlet." Juv., vi., 121. Vid. Fest in voc. "prohibere." The phrase centones sarcire also means, "to impose upon a person by falsehoods." Cf. Plaut., Epid., III., iv., 19, "Quin tu alium quæras quoi centones sarcias."

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