The satires of Persius. With English notes based on those of Macleane and Conington

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INTRODUCTIO X.

AIILIIS PERSIIIS FLACCUs, tho suocossor of Lucilius and Horae and tho prodecessor of Juvenal as a ritor offati re, Was of equostri an ran and was born a Volatorrae

in Etruria on tho th da os Decembor, .D. 34. Whentio as bout si years old, his atho Flaccus illud, and o was tost to tho caro of his mollior, hos numera a Fulvia Sisennia Undor hor direction, ho pursuod his studios a Volaterra tanti his Wolfth sar, hon homon to Rome o b instruoto by Rommius alnomon and Virginius Flavus, ho ere among the mos Celebratoi tonohors of tho day the ne in grammar, and theothor in rhetorio. At tho ago of Sixtoon, he assumodiho toga virilis V and thon o 0gan to stud With L. Annaeus Cornutus a philosopher of tho Stolo school, towhicli mos mon of thought ut that imo bolonged. Hobouam much attache to Cornutus, a Wili 0 0011 si om

boautis ut passago in tho fifth Satiro; and this affoctionlio rota inod to tho nil of his liso. In his ob hood ho

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tho advio o Cornutus. ne of his ulloW-pupil Was M. Annaeus Lucanus, the author of the Pharsalia, probat lya institan of his ea cher, a ouit man ostrea ability; and no doub through Cornutus o Lucanus, he ecame acquuintod illi nother of the Annaei M. Senoua an uncto of Lucanus), the amous philosophor ho was the tutor an advisor of Nero Anothor of his si ioniis Was Puotus Thrasea, ,ho marrio Ono os his hins vomen, and with hom e travollod Persius' mollier mari iud soconi husband Fusius, Who die Withinis s0 years; his homo is suid o hau beon ut Luna Portus in Liguria, Whoro tho fixili satiro Was,ritten Persius himself oenisi hau livo with his mollior, his sister, an his sunt, trea ting them, We are tolli, With Xomplar affection; undit a D doub frona them that o Uarno tho gontio manners and the maident modest Whicli charactoriZ0d

his mos intimat si leniis, of Whom Thrasea, Seneca, and Lueanus rere ut o death, and Cornutus Was anishod. His property, amountinito bout Wo millio Sesterces, was of to his motho an his sistor; ut o askod his mothor olivo his fritin and tutor a sum o mone and his library. Cornutus took th book. abolit evenhundrod volumes of Chrysippus aut decline to re-

Wo aro tol that Porsius as o has b00n ullud inmodern times, though his contemporaries ne him as

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Flaccus Wroto soldoin and lo ly and tho volum os Satire Whieli has como down to iis boars evidoneo flapa insta Liniani artisiuiti stylo os composition. eanoWos no Otho productions of his en except tho outhsul poems,hicli,ere spolionis abovo, and a se linos hieliar suid to avo oon omittod rom tho Ond of tho lust satiro, in ordo that it might no suom uti sinishod. Cornutus is suid o hau mado a se aliorations and thon to hau givon the volum to Caesius Hassus to odit. V oknow nothing of any of thos alterations exceptis traditio acto ono in the 121st vors of th si s Satiro, Whieliis montion sed in tho noto nolint lacu. Tho book Wasmuel admirod rom h limo of iis publiention. Tho populari ty of ur author has been by no means coiisne d to his oWn ago. Eari Christian writor studio dhis Satiros; ho is familiari quotud by Lactantius and

Augustine and avo are toti that hero is suave ono fhis mora res sections o maxinis Which does no appea in the lotior an ii commontaries of Jerome.' Hocis frequentlycited by writor of thymiddi agin and a se of his vorsos are among the Latin quotations Whicli, mos frequently meet. The ver harshnes and obscurit of his stylo, Whilo it has dolori sed many from uadi nil im, has ad Judio tho carosulnos and tholumbor of the annotations whioli hau boon udo on his toxi, and to tho admiration hich

Our orat authorit sor mos of tho statomonis in rogari to tholis o Porsius is the biographica skoteli, suppossedi Someri ha Vebeen Writton by Suetonius, and found prefixod to the old manuscripta of the Satiros. Noarly al that has boon uid above is rom his

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tho commentator But to have Voroomo uel obstaclos

rea fons o writin in an Obscure or even a non sensionistra in It is vident that Persius could uso a perfectly pure anilinassected stylo as in that passago in tho fili satiro hieli is ad drosso to his id ea ulter, Cornutus a passage of whioli nottho Virgil nor Horaco, uti n00dto b ashamsed Comparing this illi, for instanco, thegruatur par of tho si si Satire, in Whioli sonio Verso are

prosessed ly writton in imitation of tho falso stylo of thoday the rea dor may bo ted o agro With Professor Con-ington in supposing that se tho stylo Whioli his asto loniis hirn to drop Whon o is no writin satiro, is tho stylo

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Was a translator o Menandor and Persius ad orylikol road one or both of thus authors. Is it notiossi-blo that not ni here ut isoWhero, both Horace and Persius may have borrowed rom a common solii cel Atan rate, it Willi ver instructive to compare tho throo sortiis into Whicli tho Samo materiais avo oon cast, si stby tho Comodian to mali an peninisor his play thon by tho artior Satiris to illustrato the insanit of ovors, and sinati by ou author to prove that the mere absonee o temptation dous no mali a man free. Horae tranS- fors the word of erone into his hexameters; ut Persius seige upon an de Whieli ho ound Worke it ver, and appliud it to an entiret different use. It ought o bo notioed moroover, that om of tho Word and tho iduas of Porsius aro ovidonti tulisti si om

ure Folix, qui potuit rerui QOgnoscere CauSRS,V

miscito, io miseri, et causas Cognoscite rerum.'

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SA TIRA E.

Noe in bioipiti somniasso ParnRSSo Memini, ut repente Sic poeta prodirem; Holiconidasque pallidamque Pirenen Illis romitto quorum imagines lambunt Hodera Sequaces; PS Semipaganus Ad saera vatum carmen asser noStrum. Quis expedivit psittaco Suum Icci 08, Picasque docuit verba nostra conari Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter, negatos artise Sequi Voces. Quod si dolosi Spes refulserit nummi, Corvos poetas et poetridas picasCantare credas PegaSeium nectar.

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A PERSI FLACCI

SATIRA I.

CURAS hominum quantum est in rebus inanel ' Quis logo haoo 3V miti tu istud ais Nomo

hercule, nemo Vel duo vo nomo. Turpo o misorabil0l uarost No mihi Polydamas o Troiades Labeonem Praetulerint 3 nuga o. Non, si quid turbida Roma EleVet, accedas, examenuo improbum in illa Castiges trutina, ne te quaesiveri eXtra. Nam Romae quis non at si fas diuores sed asTun cum ad canitiem se nostrum istud vivor triste Aspexi, a nucibus facimus quaecunque relictis, 10 Cum Sapimus patruos tunc, tunc ignoscite. Nolo.''Quid uotum sed sum potulanti splene cachinno. Scribimus inclusi, numoros illo, hi pede liber, Grando aliquid quod pulmo anima praelargus anhelet. Scilicet haec populo pexusque togaque recenti 5 Et natalitia tandum cum sardonyche albus, Sod luget celsa liquido cum plasmate guttur Mobii colluserit, patranti fraetus Oeello. Hi nequo more probo idea nee Oee Serena Ingente trepidare Titos, cum carmina lumbum 20 Intrant et tremulo scalpuntur ut intima versu. Tun' votulo, auriculis alionis colligis suas Auriculis quibus et dicas ut perditus, hel