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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius

Note 1452 — PERSIUS.

Lewis Evans translation

Agaso. Properly, "a slave who looks after beasts of burden" (qui agit asinos, Schell.), then put as a mark of contempt for any drudge. Hor., ii., Sat. viii., 73, "Si patinam pede lapsus frangat agaso."

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