Saturae

Juvenal

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

  1. incipit optare et totis quinquatribus optat
  2. quisquis adhuc uno parcam[*](parcam P: partam Ψ ) colit asse Minervam,
  3. quem sequitur custos augustae vernula capsae.
  4. eloquio sed uterque perit orator, utrumque
  5. largus et exundans leto dedit ingenii fons.
  6. ingenio manus est et cervix caesa, nec umquam
  7. sanguine causidici maduerunt rostra pusilli.
  8. o fortunatam natam me consule Romam:[*](This line is (apparently) taken from the poem (De suo Consulatu) which Cicero wrote to glorify the events of his Consulship To the many who are not gifted with the divine faculty of poesy it may be a consolation to know that a writer of the most splendid prose could be guilty of such a rubbishy line as that here quoted.)
  9. Antoni gladios potuit contemnere, si sic
  10. omnia dixisset, videnda poemata malo