Saturae

Juvenal

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

  1. in qua sollicitas imitatur ianua portas,
  2. scit dare libertos extrema in parte sedentis
  3. ordinis et magnas comitum disponere voces:
  4. nemo dabit regum quanti subsellia constant
  5. et quae conducto pendent anabathra tigillo,
  6. quaeque reportandis posita est orchestra cathedris.
  7. nos tamen hoc agimus tenuique in pulvere sulcos
  8. ducimus et litus sterili versamus aratro,
  9. nam si discedas, laqueo tenet ambitiosi
  10. consuetudo mali, tenet insanabile multos[*](The text of lines 50-52 is evidently corrupt Part of the passage seems to be a gloss, but, even if line 51 be eliminated, lines 50 and 52 can scarcely be translated though the general sense is clear. )
  11. scribendi cacoethes et aegro in corde senescit.
  12. Sed vatem egregium, cui non sit publica vena,
  13. qui nil expositum soleat deducere nec qui