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

[915] Ægris.

"Can pardoning heaven on guilty sickness smile?
Or is there victim than itself more vile?" Badham.

[916] Mobilis. Sen., Ep. 47, "Hoc habent inter cætera boni mores, placent sibi ac permanent: levis est malitia, sæpe mutatur, non in melius, sed in aliud."

[917] Natura. Hor., i., Ep. x., 24, "Naturam expellas furca tamen usque recurret."

[918] Ruborem. Mart., xi., Ep. xxvii., 7, "Aut cum perfricuit frontem posuitque pudorem."

"Vice once indulged, what rogue could e'er restrain?
Or what bronzed cheek has learn'd to blush again?" Hodgson.

[919] Rupem. Cf. i., 73, "aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere dignum." vi., 563.

"Or hurried off to join the wretched train
Of exiled great ones in the Ægean main." Gifford.

[920] Fatebere. Cf. Psalm lviii., 9, 10.

[921] Tiresiam. Soph., Œd. T. Ovid, Met., iii., 322, seq.