Damnum faciam. Scire hoc se nescit, nisi alios id scire scierit,”
seems to have suggested Persius’ line—
“Scire tuum nihil, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter.”
The verses, “Cujus non audeo dicere nomen,” &c. quoted above, are copied by Juvenal in his first satire, but with evident allusion to the works of his predecessor. A line in the first book—
“Quis leget hæc? mîn’ tu istud ais? nemo, Hercule, nemo,”
has been imitated by Persius in the very commencement of his satires—
“O curas hominum! O quantum est in rebus inane!
Quis leget hæc? mîn’ tu istud ais? nemo, Hercule, nemo.”
Virgil’s phrase, so often quoted, “Non omnia possumus omnes,” is in the fifth book of Lucilius—
“Major erat natu; non omnia possumus omnes.”