Lucretius, Seneca and Persius 1.1-2
Joshua D. Sosin
The second line of Persius' first satire, according to the Commentum Cornuti, was borrowed from book Lucilius' Satires.' Most scholars have balked at this claim, and posit a host textual corruptions: commentator really meant Persius 1. 1, or Lucretius, Lucilius 10. Solutions been sought in text Commentum, but not poem Persius. author initiated debate with question: what is allusive background 1.2? In answering same question I offer here simpler account are trying show 1.2.
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