Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookhilum." Lucret., iii., 221, "nec defit ponderis hilum." [1975] _Nænum_, probably "ne unum," written also _nenum_, _nena_ the Archaic form of Non. Cf. Varro, Epist. ad Fusium, ap. Non. "Si hodie nænum venis, cras quidem." Lucret., iii., 20, "Nenu potest." [1976] _Pallor_, "negligentia, vetustas." Non. [1977] _Plautus_, an Umbrian word implying "flat-footed." From this peculiarity the poet derived his name, "Plotos appellant Umbri pedibus planis natos." Fest. The end of the line is hopeless. Turnebe reads "mens elephanti," and says it refers to "the horrors of matrimony, and the bodily defects of wives." Gerlach reads "mensa Libonis," and says, "Lucilius compares women to the tables of the money-changers." Cf. Hor., Sat., II., vi., 35. Cf. ad Pers., Sat., iv., 49. [1978] Cic., de Div., ii., 37, mentions a people of Galatia, called Trogini. The name does not occur elsewhere. [1979] The Archaic _Simitû_ for _simul_ occurs repeatedly in Plautus. [1980] _Privæ._ Cf. i., Fr. 13. Privum, "proprium uniuscujusque." Non. _Centonibus._ Cf. xxviii., Fr. 33. _Culcitulæ_, "small cushions or pillows," from _calco_. Fest. Cf. Plaut., Most., IV., i., 49. [1981] _Invadere_, i. e., "appetenter incipere." _Cæli._ Cicero tells us (Auct. ad Her., ii., 13, 19) that Cælius was the name of the judge who acquitted the man on the charge of defamation, who had libeled Lucilius on the stage. [1982] _Publica._ Fruter conjectures _Publicià_; but the Publician law is not mentioned. [1983] _Operatum._ So ῥέζειν. Cf. Virg., Georg., i., 339, "Sacra refer Cereri lætis operatus in herbis." Liv., i., 81. Propert., ii., 24, 1. Nonius explains it "Deos religiose et cum summâ veneratione sacrificiis litare." [1984] _Lustris._ Plaut., Asin., V., ii., 17, "Is liberis lustris studet." Casin., II., iii., 28, "Ubi in lustra jacuisti?" Cic., Phil., xiii., 11. Probest., "Aliquis emersus ex tenebris lustrorum ac stuprorum." The Fragment probably forms part of a speech of a jealous wife upbraiding her husband, as Cleostrata, in the Casina of Plautus, quoted above. [1985] _Præservit._ Cf. Plaut., Amph., Prol., 126, "Ut præservire amanti meo possem patri." _Delicere_, "to allure from the right path." Titinius ap. Non. in voc., "parasitus habeat qui illum sciat delicere, et noctem facere possit de die." _Delenit._ Cf. xxviii., Fr. 1, "to inthrall the senses by the passion of love." So Titinius, "Dotibus deleniti ultro etiam uxoribus ancillantur." [1986] _Nutricari_ for "nutrire." Cf. Cic., de Nat. Deor., ii., 34, "Educator et altor est mundus omniaque sicut membra et partis suas nutricatur et continet." [1987] _Discerniculum_, "the bodkin in a woman's headdress for parting the hair." [1988] _Ficedulæ._ Cf. ad Juv., xiv., 9. _Turdi._ Cf. ad Pers., vi., 24. Read perhaps "curatique cocis." [1989] Cf. Juv., ii., 79, "Dedit hanc contagio labem et dabit in plures: sicut grex totus in agris unius _scabie_ cadit et _porrigine_ porci." [1990] _Rumpit_, "defatigat." Non. [1991] _Pertundet._ So Ennius, "latus pertudit hasta." Juv., vi., 46, "Mediam pertundite venam." vii., 26, "Aut claude et positos tineâ pertunde libellos." _Deliciet_ Gerlach explains by "Juvare, voluptatem creare:" and reads "_Utere vi atque videbis._" [1992] _Fortis_ etiam "dives." Non. [1993] Gerlach retains _Musconis_. _Tagax_, from the old form tago. "Furunculus a tangendo." Fest, "light-fingered." _Perscribere_ may mean (like conscribellare in Catullus) "to mark letters upon," i. e., brand him with the word Fur on the hand: hence trium literarum homo. [1994] _Habendo._ Cf. Virg., Georg., iii., 159, "Et quos aut pecori malint summittere habendo." [1995] _Involem._ Ter., Eun., V., ii., 20, "Vix me contineo quin involem in capillum." So "Castra involare." Tac., Hist., iv., 33. [1996] _Angina_, "genus morbi; eo quod angat." Non. Cf. Plaut., Trin., II., iv., 139, "Sues moriuntur anginâ." Most., I., iii., 61, "In anginam ego nunc me velim vorti, ut veneficæ illi fauces prehendam." [1997] _Consternere_ is applied "to preparing a couch." Cf. Catul., lxiv., 163, "Purpureâve tuum consternens veste cubile." This seems to be the meaning here; as there seems to be a vibration of the reading between consternitur, nobis lectus, and vetus, for Restes. Cf. ad lib. vi., Fr. 13. [1998] Dusa's conjecture is followed. Scaliger supposes temnere to be an old form of the perfect "tempsere." [1999] _Præstringere_ "non valdè stringere et claudere." Non. THE SATIRES OF DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS, AND OF AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS. TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH VERSE, BY WILLIAM GIFFORD, ESQ. SATIRE I. Oh! heavens--while THUS hoarse Codrus perseveres To force his Theseid on my tortured ears, Shall I not ONCE attempt "to quit the score," ALWAYS an auditor, and nothing more! Forever at my side, shall this rehearse 5 His elegiac, that his comic verse, Unpunished? shall huge Telephus, at will, The livelong day consume, or, huger still, Orestes, closely written, written, too, Down the broad marge, and yet--no end in view! 10 Away, away!--None knows his home so well As I the grove of Mars, and Vulcan's cell, Fast by the Æolian rocks!--How the Winds roar, How ghosts are tortured on the Stygian shore, How Jason stole the golden fleece, and how 15 The Centaurs fought on Othrys' shaggy brow; The walks of Fronto echo round and round-- The columns trembling with the eternal sound, While high and low, as the mad fit invades, Bellow the same trite nonsense through the shades. 20 I, TOO, CAN WRITE--and, at a pedant's frown, ONCE poured my fustian rhetoric on the town: And idly proved that Sylla, far from power, Had passed, unknown to fear, the tranquil hour:-- Now I resume my pen; for, since we meet 25 Such swarms of desperate bards in every street, 'Tis vicious clemency to spare the oil, And hapless paper they are sure to spoil. But why I choose, adventurous, to retrace The Auruncan's route, and, in the arduous race, 30 Follow his burning wheels, attentive hear, If leisure serve, and truth be worth your ear. When the soft eunuch weds, and the bold fair Tilts at the Tuscan boar, with bosom bare; When one that oft, since manhood first appeared, 35 Has trimmed the exuberance of this sounding beard, In wealth outvies the senate; when a vile, A slave-born, slave-bred, vagabond of Nile, Crispinus, while he gathers now, now flings His purple open, fans his summer rings; 40 And, as his fingers sweat beneath the freight, Cries, "Save me--from a gem of greater weight!" 'Tis hard a less adventurous course to choose, While folly plagues, and vice inflames the Muse. For who so slow of heart, so dull of brain, 45 So patient of the town, as to contain His bursting spleen, when, full before his eye, Swings the new chair of lawyer Matho by, Crammed with himself! then, with no less parade, That caitiff's, who his noble friend betrayed, 50 Who now, in fancy, prostrate greatness tears, And preys on what the imper |