Note 1993 — BOOK XXX.
Lewis Evans translation
Gerlach retains Musconis. Tagax, from the old form tago. "Furunculus a tangendo." Fest, "light-fingered." Perscribere may mean (like conscribellare in Catullus) "to mark letters upon," i. e., brand him with the word Fur on the hand: hence trium literarum homo.