66. #neu#: 3, 51. --#repone#: 'dish up again;' the _paterna dicta_ may
be considered a _crambe repetita_. Comp. Quint., 2, 4, 29: _cum eadem
iudiciis pluribus dicunt, fastidium movent velut frigidi et #repo siti#
cibi_. Persius is nothing if not culinary. Jahn (1868) reads: _oppone_,
which is clearer but tamer. _Paterna d._ is simply 'the talk one hears
from fathers,' severe old gentlemen on the stage.
67. #faenoris--reliquum est#: clearly a specimen of fatherly counsel.
Every Polonius has something to say to his Laertes on this subject
(Hamlet, 1, 3). Persius's Polonius advises his son to keep an account,
enter (_accedat_ = _apponatur_, see note on 2, 2) his interest on the
credit side, charge his expenses to the debit side, and find the
remainder-- in other words, to live carefully within the income of his
property. Before the old gentleman gets through, Persius repeats his
last word mockingly: 'Remainder? Hang the remainder.' This is also
Conington's view, who compares the commercial arithmetic lesson in Hor.,
A. P., 327 seqq. --#merces#: Hor. uses _merces_ alone in the same sense
as _faenoris merces_ here, Sat., 1, 2, 14. 3, 88. --#hinc#: from the
capital, or from the interest, or from both. I am inclined to refer
_hinc_ to the side of the account.