Saturae

Juvenal

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

  1. deceptas? festinat enim decurrere velox
  2. flosculus angustae miseraeque brevissima vitae
  3. portio; dum bibimus, dum serta unguenta puellas
  4. poscimus, obrepit non intellecta senectus.’
  5. Ne trepida, numquam pathicus tibi derit amicus
  6. stantibus et salvis his collibus: undique ad illos
  7. convenient et carpentis et navibus omnes
  8. qui digito scalpunt uno caput, altera maior
  9. spes superest; tu tantum erucis inprime dentem.
  10. gratus eris; tu tantum erucis inprime dentem.[*](Ψ omits. After line 134, P has this line, being mainly a repetition of that line. Housman conjectures an omission of five words, and reads the lines thus: altera maior spes superest; turbae, properat quae crescere, molli gratus eris, tu tantum erucis imprime dentom.)