Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

CATOThings hard to bear grow pleasant to relate.Keener our zest for the new than our grasp on the old.A good turn slips the mind, a wrong endures.No witness near—we'll easier bear our ills. 35Work often dries the tear and spreads delight.Memory of joys will aggravate my woes.*Caution and care you'll learn from others' case.Hunger is sauce : no dishes please the gorged.'Learning is pleasant fruit from bitter root. 40Ere you accuse, your own life first inspect.Who at fit moment yields is conqueror.Your hopes enslave you ; for your thoughts are bribed.^None so despised as cannot hurt when hurt.*^The man you could not slight can harm you more.^ 45Cloak crime with crime and you increase your fear.To bodily courage add the sway of thought.When ^^•ith sharp eye another's faults you mind,Not seeing yours, you're blamed in turn as blind.Praise voted to the bad disgusts the good. 50If irked by what you've done, don't do what irks.Harm sometimes must be borne, if found to suitFor sweet the toil of bearing toil \\'ith fruit.[Find joy in life ;grieve for the death of none.Why grieve for him from whom all grief has gone ?] ^ 55Hope makes allurements : lust is stirred by sight.What you prescribe when well, you drop when sick.Don't hurt e'en enemies behind their backs.Sores spread in stealth by foolish silence hid.advantages you are counting on and allotting to yourselfas if already won.'^i.e. the veriest craven will retaliate :" even a worm willturn."•*The thought is not very deep : the man with no chinksin his armour is one to be reckoned with.« In D : also in Appendix from Zurich and Verona MSS.supra.ss 2627