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Horace had used the expression naso suspendis adunco, a legitimate and intelligible metaphor; Persius imitates it, excusso populum suspendere naso, thereby rendering it frigid and weak. Horace had said clament periisse pudorem Cuncti paene patres; Persius caricatures him, exclamet Melicerta perisse Frontem de rebus.
For those that were there before observed, dedicated to Melicerta, were performed privately in the night, and had the form rather of a religious rite than of an open spectacle or public feast.
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