The Satires of Juvenal And Persius Literally Translated From the Most Approved Texts By W. Wallace
The Satires of Juvenal And Persius Literally Translated From the Most Approved Texts By W. Wallace
Juvenal, Persius
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XI.] LITERALLY TRANSLATED. 65 fish shall be bought, nor should you desire a mullet when you have only a gudgeon in your pockets. For what end awaits you with a failing purse and a growing appetite, your pater- nal fortune and substance sunk in your beUy, which receives the interest and large principal, and the stock and lands ? From such owners after all the ring goes last, and PoUio has to beg with his finger bare. Ashes (or death) never come too soon, nor is a funeral bitter to luxury ; but o...ld age is more to be feared than death. These generally are the steps : money is borrowed at Rome, and spent before the lenders ; then when a little I know not what remains, and the money-lender turns pale, those who have changed the soil run to Baise and the oysters. For, to abscond from 'change is no worse now than to migrate from hot Subura to Esquilise. This is the only concern to them flying their country, this is their sorrow, to have missed the Circensian games for a whole twelvemonth. Not a drop of blood stays in their face : few detain scorned Modesty flying out of the city.
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