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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius

Note 1528 — PERSIUS.

Lewis Evans translation

Mergis. Cf. Hom., Od., v., 337. The Mergus (αἴθυια of the Greeks) is put for any large sea-bird. Hor., Epod. x., 21, "Opima quodsi præda curvo litore porrecta mergos juveris."

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