human
are meant; and with almost equal certainty we may assert that Lucilius is parodying a line of Pacuvius quoted by Quintilian (i., c. 5),
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Nerei repandirostrum incurvicervicum pecus. But the reading of the line is very doubtful. Corpet, after Balth. Venator, reads, _nasi_ rostrique. D'Achaintre follows the old reading, _jussit_. Gerlach reads nisi, but suggests _simum_ (but without quoting Pliny, which would confirm his conjecture, vid. H. N., IX., viii., 7,
human
). Lucil., vii., Fr. 9,
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Simat nares delphinus ut olim. May not _nisi_, after all, be a corruption of _Nerei_? Cf. Hor., Od., I., ii., 7. Virg., Georg., iv., 395,