Saturae

Juvenal

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

  1. summos posse viros et magna exempla daturos
  2. vervecum in patria crassoque sub aere nasci.
  3. ridebat curas nec non et gaudia vulgi,
  4. interdum et lacrimas, cum Fortunae ipse minaci
  5. mandaret laqueum mediumque ostenderet unguem.
  6. Ergo supervacua aut quae[*](quae is a conj. by Büch. (1893), the space being blank in the MSS. aut ne perniciosa petantur Lach. Housman has a mark of interrogation after petuntur. As the text stands, sunt must be understood after quae. Owen conj. prope.) perniciosa petuntur