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Compositum jus fasque animo, sanctosque recessus
Mentis, et incoctum generoso pectus honesto?
Hæc cedo ut admoveam templis, et farre litabo.

To the just Gods let me present a mind,
Which civil and religious duties bind,

A guileless heart, which no dark secrets knows,
But with the generous love of virtue glows.
Such be the presents, such the gifts I make,
With them I sacrifice a wheaten cake,

THE

SATIRES OF PERSIUS.

SATIRE III.

SATIRA III.

V. I-9.

NEMPE hæc assidue. Jam clarum mane fenestras
Intrat, et angustas extendit lumine rimas :
Stertimus indomitum quod despumare Falernum
Sufficiat, quinta dum linea tangitur umbra.
En quid agis? siccas insana canicula messes
Jamdudum coquit, et patula pecus omne sub ulmo est.
Unus ait comitum : verumne? itane? ocyus adsit
Huc aliquis, nemon'? turgescit vitrea bilis :

Findor: ut Arcadiæ pecuaria rudere credas.

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