Sed gestatio, fabulæ, libelli,
Campus, porticus, umbra, virgo, thermæ;
Hæc essent loca semper, hi labores.
Nunc vivit sibi neuter, heu! bonosque
Soles effugere atque abire sentit;
Qui nobis PEREUNT, ET IMPUTANTUR.
Quisquam vivere cum sciat, moratur?"
Lib. v. ep. 20.
W.[2]
[2] We are indebted to several other correspondents for similar replies to this Query; and one, A. C. W., remarks that the epigram from which these lines are quoted, is thus translated by Cowley: