[959] See Dr. Thomson's remarks on Persius, before, p. 398.
[960] There is no appearance of any want of finish in the sixth Satire of Persius, as it has come down to us; but it has been conjectured that it was followed by another, which was left imperfect.
[961] There were two Arrias, mother and daughter, Tacit. Annal. xvi. 34. 3.
[962] Persius died about nine days before he completed his twenty-ninth year.
[963] Venusium stood on the confines of the Apulian, Lucanian, and Samnite territories.
Sequor hunc, Lucanus an Appulus anceps;
Nam Venusinus arat finem sub utrumque colonus.
Hor Sat. xi. 1. 34.
[964] Sat. i. 6. 45.
[965] Horace mentions his being in this battle, and does not scruple to admit that he made rather a precipitate retreat, "relicta non bene parmula."—Ode xi. 7-9.
[966] See Ode xi. 7. 1.
[967] The editors of Suetonius give different versions of this epigram. It seems to allude to some passing occurrence, and in its present form the sense is to this effect: "If I love you not, Horace, to my very heart's core, may you see the priest of the college of Titus leaner than his mule."
[968] Probably the Septimius to whom Horace addressed the ode beginning