This and the nine following lines are a considerable expansion of the Latin: but I was apprehensive of not bringing out the connexion, if I translated more closely.
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Empedocles or the Stertinian school.
As Horace has chosen to take Stertinius here as a type of the Stoics, I thought I might avail myself of a similar licence, and call the Stoics as a school by his name.
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The ox, unyoked and resting from the plough,
Wants fodder, stripped from elm or poplar bough.
Horace merely has "strictis frondibus:" but the writers De Re Rustica, quoted by the commentators, tell us what the leaves in use were.
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When Maenius, after nobly gobbling down
His fortune, took to living on the town.
"Took to living on the town" is not meant as a version of "urbanus coepit haberi," but rather as an equivalent suggested by the context.