Saturae

Juvenal

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

  1. tantum igitur muros intra toga contulit illi
  2. nominis ac tituli, quantum sibi[*](Willis accepts sibi, following the cautious conjecture of Jahn. If we read in with PSGU the line is deficient metrically. Ψ has non: Owen conj. vi.) Leucade, quantum
  3. Thessaliae campis Octavius abstulit udo
  4. caedibus adsiduis gladio; sed Roma parentem,
  5. Roma patrem patriae Ciceronem libera dixit.
  6. Arpinas alius Volscorum in monte solebat
  7. poscere mercedes alieno lassus aratro,
  8. nodosam post haec frangebat vertice vitem,
  9. si lentus pigra muniret castra dolabra;
  10. hic tamen et Cimbros et summa pericula rerum
  11. excipit et solus trepidantem protegit urbem.