Abstract
The second line of Persius' first satire, according to the Commentum Cornuti, was borrowed from the first book of Lucilius' Satires.' Most scholars have balked at this claim, and posit a host of textual corruptions: the commentator really meant Persius 1. 1, or Lucretius, or Lucilius book 10. Solutions have been sought in the text of the Commentum, but not in the poem of Persius. The author of the Commentum initiated this debate with a question: what is the allusive background to Persius 1.2? In answering the same question I offer here a simpler account of what Persius and the author of the Commentum are trying to show at 1.2.
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