Saturae

Persius

Persius. Juvenal and Persius. Ramsay, G. G., editor. London, New York: William Heinemann, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1918.

  1. ten cirratorum centum dictata fuisse
  2. pro nihilo pendes?[*]()ecce inter pocula quaerunt
    3. [*](Professor Housman adopts Madvig’s conjecture of articulis for auriculis, and translates What? catering at your age for others’ ears with cates which you, disabled with gout and dropsy, must forgo? (Classical Quarterly, Jan. 1913, p. 14. Subsequent references to Professor Housman are to be found in this article.))[*](pendas aP2.)
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  3. Romulidae saturi, quid dia poemata narrent;
  4. hic aliquis, cui circum umeros hyacinthina laena est,
  5. rancidulum quiddam balba de nare locutus
  6. Phyllidas, Hypsipylas, vatum et plorabile siquid,
  7. eliquat ac tenero subplantat verba palato.
  8. adsensere viri: nunc non cinis ille poetae
  9. felix? non levior cippus nunc inprimit ossa?
  10. laudant convivae: nunc non e manibus illis,
  11. nunc non e tumulo fortunataque favilla
  12. nascentur violae?rides, ait, et nimis uncis
  13. naribus indulges, an erit qui velle recuset
  14. os populi meruisse et cedro digna locutus