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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius

Note 228 — JUVENAL'S SATIRES.

Lewis Evans translation

Free Roman citizens had three names, prænomen, nomen, and cognomen. Slaves had no prænomen. Cf. Pers., Sat. v., 76-82. He means to imply that, by turning parasite, Trebius had virtually forfeited the privileges of a free Roman.

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