Epilegomena On Horace, in the Form of a Critical Letter
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Marco sub iudice palles ? Marcus dixit, ita est : assigna, Marce, tabellas Haec mera libertas, hanc nobis pilea donant. My reading of Persius, whose indebtedness to Horace is notorious, has convinced me that he understood him as Juvenal did, and this fifth Satire, like the first and third, is conspicuous for its illustra- tions drawn from the moral example of Murena. The non-preservation of details is the sole obstacle to assigning to each expression its proper significance. This passage from P...ersius, read with Horace's lines, points to some judicial inquiry (perhaps over Varro's will, in order to test the validity of its disposition of eleven-twelfths to " Gillo " and one- twelfth to Proculeius), and it also points to the evidence of a freedman, but lately enfranchised, which decided the case. The freedman, judging by the result, belonged to " Gillo, " and Persius makes it clear that in the selection of the witness, no mistake was made. It is worthy of note that the ii6 EPILEGOMENA ON HORACE " Marcus dixit " is an adaptation of the avrh^ €(f)a which was sufficient sanction to Pythagor- eans for any precept or doctrine of their master.^ One, of course, may go astray in thus attempting to fill in the blanks of a story which has to be built up from a literary presentation of it given " oratione suspensa, " " excusso naso, " " et clam, et cum scrobe " (Pers.
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