Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 February 2009
1 Housman denied that Persius 3. 3 implied a hangover. True, it need not do so, but when taken in conjunction with oscitat hesternum in v. 59 it probably does.
2 The idea of a pupil's father being present in the classroom could have been suggested by Horace, Sat. i. 6. 76–82.
3 Hendrickson, op. cit. (p. 286 above), 333.
4 This is not to be recommended, for Persius had more than one comes (v. 7), but hardly more than one paedagogus. Also it is not easy to imagine a Greek paedagogus ever learning a speech of Cato's (v. 45).