8 ... hanging from the side, sprinkling the rocks with clotted gore and black blood....[1813]
9 The tragic poet who spoils his verses through Orestes about to grow hoarse.[1814]
10 ... twenty thousand gravers and pincers[1815]
11 ... and to pluck out teeth with crooked pincers.
12 ... desire may be eradicated from a man, but never covetousness from a fool.[1816]
FOOTNOTES:
[1809] Passus is properly applied to a dried grape; either "quod solem diutius passa est," or more probably from pando.
[1810] Cf. Hor., i., Sat. i., 32, "Sicut parvula nam exemplo est magni formica laboris ore trahit quodcunque potest atque addit acervo quem struit, haud ignara et non incanta futuri. Quæ simul inversum contristat Aquarius annum non usquam prorepit et illis utitur ante quæsitis sapiens."
[1811] The passage in Cicero stands thus, "Si res in contentionem veniet, nimirum Themistocles est auctor adhibendus; qui cum consuleretur utrum bono viro pauperi, an minùs probato diviti, filiam collocaret: Ego vero, inquit, malo virum, qui pecuniâ egeat, quam pecuniam, quæ viro." De Off., ii., 20.