The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius / Literally translated into English prose, with notes, chronological tables, arguments, &c.

by Juvenal; Gaius Lucilius; Persius; Sulpicia

"The deed which both our tongues held vile to name!"

Cf. i., 167, "tacitâ sudant præcordia culpâ."

"Thus, but intended mischief, stay'd in time,
Had all the moral guilt of finished crime." Badham.

[901] Crescente. Ov., Heroid., xvi., 226, "Crescit et invito lentus in ore cibus."

[902] Sed vina. Read perhaps "Setina," as v., 33.

[903] Albani. Cf. v., 33, "Cras bibet Albanis aliquid de montibus." Hor., iv., Od. xi., 1, "Est mihi nonum superantis annum plenus Albani cadus." Mart., xiii., 109, "Hoc de Cæsareis Mitis Vindemia cellis misit Iuleo quæ sibi monte placet."

[904] Velut acri. Or perhaps, "as though the rich Falernian were sour instead of mellow."

"The rich Falernian changes into gall." Hodgson.

[905] Versata. Cf. iii., 279. Hom., Il., xxiv., 10, seq. Sen., de Tranq. An., 2, "versant se et hoc atque illo modo componunt donec quietem lassitudine inveniant." "Propert.," I., xiv., 21, "Et miserum toto juvenem versare cubili."

[906] Sudoribus. Cf. i., 167, "Sudant præcordia culpâ." Cf. Ov., Her., vii., 65.