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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius

Note 1168 — PERSIUS.

Lewis Evans translation

Prolui. Proluere, "to dip the lips," properly applied to cattle. So "procumbere," Sulp., 17. Cf. Stat. Sylv., V., iii., 121, "Risere sorores Aonides, pueroque chelyn submisit et ora imbuit amne sacro jam tum tibi blandus Apollo."

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