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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius

Note 750 — JUVENAL'S SATIRES. (continued 3)

Lewis Evans translation

Pergula. Literally "the stall outside a shop where articles are displayed for sale." Here used for the teachers of the art of carving who exhibited at these stalls. Suet., Aug., 94, speaks of a "pergula Mathematici." Pergula, "à perga, quia extrà parietem pergit." Facc.

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