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The works of Horace : with English notes, critical and ... - Cristo Raul

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8. j SERMONUM.—LIBER II. lOS<br />

Satira ITI.<br />

OMNES INSANIRE, ETIAM IPSOS STOICOS,<br />

DUM HOC DOCENT.<br />

Damasippus.<br />

Sic raro scribis, ut toto non quater anno<br />

Membranam poscas, scriptorum quaeque retexens,<br />

Iratus tibi, quod vini somnique benignus<br />

Nil dignum sermone canas. Quid fiet ? Ab ipsis<br />

Satumalibus hue fugisti. Sobrius ergo o<br />

Die aliquid dignum promissis : incipe. Nil est.<br />

Lii2pantur frustra calami, immeritusque laborat<br />

Iratis natus pariets Dis atque poetis.<br />

Atqui vultus erat multa et prseclar.i minantis,<br />

Si vacuum tepido cepisset villula tocto. Ill<br />

Quorsum pertinuit stipare Platona Men<strong>and</strong>ro,<br />

Eupolin, Archilochum, comites educere tantos ?<br />

Invidiam placaie paras, virtute rellcta ?<br />

Contemnere, miser. Vit<strong>and</strong>a est improba Siren<br />

Desidia ; aut quidquid vita meliore parasti, 16<br />

Ponendum sequo animo.<br />

HoEATIUS.<br />

Di te, Damasippe, Deseque<br />

Verum ob consilimm donent tonsore. Sed unde<br />

Tam bene me nosti ?<br />

Damasippus.<br />

Postquam omnis res mea Janum<br />

Ad medium fracta est, aliena negotia euro,<br />

Excussus propriis. Olim nam quaerere amabam, 20<br />

Quo vafer ille pedes lavisset Sisypbus sere.<br />

Quid sculptum infabre, quid fusum durius esset<br />

Cailidus huic signo ponebam millia centum :<br />

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