E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, Poem 97

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[6] ploxeni: explained by Festus to mean a wagon-box (capsum in cisio capsave), and said by Quintilian to be circumpadane (Gallic?) in origin; Quint. 1.5.8 “Catullus ‘ploxenum’ circa Padum invenit” . The comparison here may be of the wrinkled and fissured look of diseased gums to some peculiarity in shape of the ploxenum, or to its wrinkled and split rawhide covering.

[10] pistrino: etc., i. e. relegated to the occupation of the rudest slaves, that of driving the ass that turns the mill.

Catullus. Catullus. E. T. Merrill. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1893.

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