BOOK XVIII.
ARGUMENT.
From the small portion of this book that has come down to us, it is but mere idle conjecture to attempt to decide upon its subject. Petermann says it treated "of fools and misers." There are some lines in the first Satire of Horace's first book, which bear so close a resemblance to some lines in this book that Gerlach considers it was the model which Horace had before his eyes. The passages are quoted in the notes.
1 Take twelve hundred bushels of corn, and a thousand casks of wine....[1806]
2 In short, as a fool never has enough, even though he has everything....
3 ... for even in those districts, there will be drunk a cup tainted with rue and sea-onion....[1807]
4 ... I enjoy equally with you—[1808]
5 ... in the transaction of the ridiculous affair itself, he boasts that he was present.