Persius

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Aulus Persius Flaccus (34 – 62) was a Roman satirical poet and moralist.

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[edit] The Satires

Translations are taken from G. G. Ramsay's revised edition of Juvenal and Persius in the Loeb Classical Library (1940)

• Magister artis ingenique largitor
  venter.
  • That master of arts, that dispenser of genius, the Belly.
  • Prologue, line 10.

• Usque adeone
  scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter?
  • Is all your knowledge to go so utterly for nothing unless other people know that you possess it?
  • Satire I, line 26.

• At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier "hic est".
  • O but it is a fine thing to have a finger pointed at one, and to hear people say, "That's the man!"
  • Satire I, line 28.

• Nec nocte paratum,
  plorabit qui me volet incurvasse querella.
  • The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears – not tears that have been got ready overnight.
  • Satire I, line 90.

• Cum lux altera venit,
  iam cras hesternum consumpsimus; ecce aliud cras
  egerit hos annos et semper paulum erit ultra.
  • But when to-morrow comes, yesterday's morrow will have been already spent: and lo! a fresh morrow will be for ever making away with our years, each just beyond our grasp.
  • Satire V, line 67.

• Nostrum est
  quod vivis, cinis et manes et fabula fies.
  vive memor leti, fugit hora.
  • Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.
  • Satire V, line 151.

[edit] External links

• Works by Persius at Project Gutenberg