Bis terque expertum frustra, delere jubebat 440 Si defendere delictum quam vertere malles, Nullum ultra verbum aut operam insumebat inanem, Vir bonus et prudens versus reprehendet inertes, 445 Culpabit duros, incomptis allinet atrum Transverso calamo signum, ambitiosa recidet In puteum foveamve, licet, Succurrite, longum 450 455 441. male tornatos. So Propert. | luxuriantia. Cp. Carm. I. xxxvi. II. xxxiv. 43.: 20. 445. See Ep. 1. ii. 110. sqq. 447. ambitiosa. Perhaps in its first | düteî. sign., as derived from ambio, μακρὸν Clamet, Io cives! non sit, qui tollere curet. Narrabo interitum: Deus immortalis haberi 471. triste bidental. Pers. ii. 27. A place struck by lightning, and then consecrated by sacrifices (bidentibus), and railed off from profanation. Cp. puteal. 460 465 470 475 474. recitator. Sat. L. iii. 89.; Juv. Sat. iii. 9. 476. hirudo. Theocr. ii. 56.: τί μευ μέλαν ἐκ χροὸς αἷμα ἐμφὺς ὡς λιμνᾶτις ἅπαν ἐκ βδέλλα πέπωκας ; |