22 ... that, like an angry cur, speaks plainer than a man.
23 ... the common herd stupidly look for a knot in a bulrush.[1611]
24 ... and legions serve for pay.
25 ... quote prodigies, elephants.
26 ... ladles and ewers.[1612]
27 Vulture.[1613]
28 ... like a fool, you came to dance among the Pathics.
29 Oh the cares of men! Oh how much vanity is there in human affairs![1614]
FOOTNOTES:
[1599] Book I. Some of the commentators suppose that the thirty Satires of Lucilius were divided into two books, and that the first of these books, and not the first Satire only, was dedicated to Ælius Stilo.