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for a finite verb of 'striking' or ' cutting.' This, he thinks, 

 is lurking in 'udis,' which is certainly very weak and has 

 never been well explained. The verb is probably ' ussit.' 

 It should be noticed that the word ' udis' appears 'm ras. ;S,' 

 and that very often in mss. the termination '-it' shows a 

 medial 'd.'^^ For similar uses of the verb ' urere ' cp. Horace, 

 Epp. I. 16, 47, 'loris non ureris'; Epod. 4, 3, 'Hibericis 

 peruste funibus'; Sat. II. 7, 58, 'virgis uri.' The conjec- 

 ture 'quo melior versu est' in the fourth line he puts for- 

 ward with less confidence. 



Marx then refers his new reading, 'qui multum 

 puerum . . . ussit exoratus,' to Vettius Philocomus, Cato's 

 teacher, who was one of the first to revise the work of 

 Lucilius.''* This man, as being 'Lucilii familiaris,' and 

 possibly the same person who was censured by the poet 

 •propter sermonem parum urbanum,''''^ may have been like 

 Aelius Stilo and Servius Clodius, a Roman knight. His 

 name, however, suggests a Greek origin, and in the absence 

 of any special statement as to his rank, it is not easy to 

 assume that he was an "eques.' 



Vs. 8. The words 'grammaticorum equitum doctissi- 

 mus' are very difficult both in reference and in meaning. 

 They would most naturally refer to the same person as 

 • qui . . . exoratus,' but they can hardly apply to the per- 

 son M^ho is so unfavorably compared with Cato. Schtitz 

 claims that such irony as this is quite impossible here, and 

 failing to find any other person to whom the epithet could 

 easily be referred, would strike out the words altogether. 

 Apitz^* bracketed the whole of verse 8. 



Kirchner and Doderlein would refer 'doctissimus' to 

 the same person as 'melior' and 'subtilior,' /. e., to Cato. 



=« Examples of this interchange in Horatian mss. are cited by Keller and 

 Holder, Epilegom. III. p. 8ri3. A similar list is given in Mayor's The Latin Hepta- 

 teuch, p. 251. 



^'Sueton. De G'ramm. 2. 



35 Quint. Inst. Or. 1. 5, 56, taceo de tuscis et sabinis et praenestinis quoque: 

 nam et eorum sermone utentem Vettium (Vectium?) Lucilius insectatur, quem- 

 admodum Pollio reprehendit in Livio Patavinitatem, licet omnia italica pro 

 romanis habeam. 



!« Coniectan. in Q. H. F. Satiras, 1S56, p. 86. 



