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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius

Note 548 — JUVENAL'S SATIRES. (continued 2)

Lewis Evans translation

Pingit. Others read fingit, and interpret it of "plaster casts." It probably refers to the "line of painted busts" to deck his corridor, perhaps of fictitious ancestors. Cf. viii., 2, "Pictosque ostendere vultus majorum."

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