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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius

Note 1312 — PERSIUS.

Lewis Evans translation

Infami digito. The middle finger was so called because used to point in scorn and derision. Cf. Juv., x., 53, "Mandaret laqueum mediumque ostenderet unguem."

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