Q. HORATII FLACCI SATIRARUM LIBER PRIMUS. SATIRA I. Qui fit, Mæcenas, ut nemo, quam sibi sortem Miles ait multo jam fractus membra labore. Militia est potior. Quid enim? Concurritur; horæ 5 10 Bapús, Soph. Ed. T. 17. and Virg. En. ix. 246., passages to be quoted chiefly in support of the received reading, against the conjecture armis. annis, it should be observed, is 'years of service.' 8. cita mors. Carm. 11. xvi. 29. The whole idea is perhaps taken from the sentiment of Ajax, in Hom. II. O. 511. 10. consultor pulsat. See Epist. 11. i. 104.; and cp. Cic. Pro Muren. 9.: Vigilas tu de nocte tu tuis consultoribus respondeas: ille ut eo, quo intendit, mature cum exercitu perveniat; te gallorum, illum buccinarum cantus exsuscitat. Ille, datis vadibus qui rure extractus in urbem est, Cetera de genere hoc, adeo sunt multa, loquacem Percurram, — quamquam ridentem dicere verum 11. vadibus, from vas, 'a surety;' one "qui pro altero vadimonium promittebat."-Varro. vadimonium, ‘a promise (in law) or recognisance.' vadimonium sistit, 'he keeps his recognisance,' i. e. appears in court. Cic. Pro P. Quint. 8. vadm. mihi deserit,' he forfeits it,' i. e. by not appearing. Ibid. 23. vadari, 'to hold (a person) to bail.' See Sat. 1. ix. 36. 20. Quid causæ est quin? (What is there to prevent his being, i. e.) Must he not be, provoked? 23. Præterea. Here a fresh argument is beginning; checked, however, by a parenthesis, to excuse diversion to a more serious vein and particular application. 23. jocularia, 'farces' exodia. See Liv. vii. 2., where the rise of farce and comedy at Rome is described; its first step, the addition of jocularia to the Tuscan dance; its next transition to saturæ, with musical accompaniment; then a plot, dialogue, and scenic representation; while, as it assumed its most artificial shape, the young Romans, leaving the play to trained actors, claimed a place for and performed, as amateurs, the old jocularia, then called exodia (whether these were 'interludes,' as in Smith's Dict. and Sigonius's note, or 'afterpieces'). Perfidus hic caupo, miles nautæque, per omne 30 35 40 Quid juvat immensum te argenti pondus et auri At, ni id fit, quid habet pulchri constructus acervus? Non tuus hoc capiet venter plus ac meus: ut si 29. hic. Not as if the 'publican' had been already mentioned, but in opposition to ille, v. 28. The caupo' is more fittingly introduced among the examples here than the consultus,' whose profession would not have been adopted merely for a livelihood. 6. nautæ. i. e. mercatores, as in v. 32. Compare Juvenal, xiv. 272 275. 45 50 contristat. Virg. Geor. iii. 279.: pluvio contristat frigore cœlum. Aquarius. Ibid. 304.: extremoque irrorat Aquarius anno. The sun is reckoned to enter Aquarius on the 16th of January. 38. cum te, the apodosis to quæ. 'But she uses her store like a wise creature, whereas you . . . .' te. i. e. the miser; on whom the satire is suddenly turned. (This changing of the persons addressed is a difficulty in Carm. iv. ii.) Mille aret? At suave est ex magno tollere acervo.". Eo fit, 55 Cum ripa simul avulsos ferat Aufidus acer. Mutato nomine de te Fabula narratur: congestis undique saccis Nescis quo valeat nummus? quem præbeat usum ? 52. Soph. Philoct. 647. may be | Quæstio... compared. 54. urna, cyatho. See on Carm. III. viii. 13. 58-60. See (for illustration of this) the Eastern story in the Ram bler, No. 38., and Gray's Ode to Vicissitude, stanz. 8. 61. bona pars. Cp. "bona magnaque pars."-Lucret. v. 1024. A phrase found in Terence also. 62. tanti, quantum habeas, sis. Juvenal's lines, iii. 140., with a different application, are parallel to this: Protenus ad censum, de moribus ultima fiet 65 70 Quantum quisque suâ nummorum servat in arcâ, let him Tantum habet et fidei. 63. libenter quatenus, be miserable if he likes it;' lit., 'since he is so of his own choice.' miserum esse. Juv. xiv. 304. 66. Cp. Juv. xiv. 152-5.; e contrar., Eurip. Ion, 630. 68-71. Tantalus ... inhians. σreρ 8 Távтaλos. . . ÈTIKEXNVÓTES μóvov T xpvoíq.-Lucian. Timon. 17. sacris. Cp. Sat. II. iii. 109. sq. 73. Compare Pope, Mor. Essays, iii. 79. |