[1983]And to this day is every scholar poor;
Gross gold from them runs headlong to the boor:
Qui cupit optatam cursu contingere metam,
Multa tulit, fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit.
He that desires this wished goal to gain,
Must sweat and freeze before he can attain,
———statua, taciturnius exit,
Plerumque et risum populi quatit.———
[1992]Obstipo capite, et figentes lumine terram,
Murmura cum secum, et rabiosa silentia rodunt,