Saturae

Juvenal

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

  1. tractato Armenius vel Commagenus haruspex;
  2. pectora pullorum rimabitur, exta catelli,
  3. interdum et pueri; faciet quod deferat ipse.
  4. Chaldaeis set maior erit fiducia: quidquid
  5. dixerit astrologus, credent a fonte relatum
  6. Hammonis, quoniam Delphis oracula cessant
  7. et genus humanum damnat caligo futuri,
  8. praecipuus tamen est horum, qui saepius exul,
  9. cuius amicitia conducendaque tabella[*](Lines 6.558-59 are omitted in PFG and not noted in the scholia. Clausen rejects them, as does Willis, following Hermann.)
  10. magnus civis obit et formidatus Othoni.
  11. inde fides artis, sonuit si dextera ferro
  12. laevaque, si longe castrorum in carcere mansit,
  13. nemo mathematicus genium indemnatus habebit,