Q. HORATII FLACCI SATIRARUM LIBER PRIMUS. SATIRA I Qui fit, Mæcenas, ut nemo, quam sibi sortem Militia est potior. Quid enim? Concurritur; horæ SAT. 1. 1-3. ut nemo ... vivat, laudet...? e. ut nemo vivat (quisque) laudet. Though the first clause contains the negative form of expression, the affirmative notion only is to be supplied to the second. So below, v. 109. : nemo se probet, ac potius laudet. 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. II. xvi. 29. The whole idea is perhaps taken from the sentiment of Ajax, in Hom. II. O. 511. Cicero has a noted instance of this 10. consultor pulsat. See Epist. usage, De Orat. iii. 14. Nemo ex-II. i. 104.; and cp. : Cic. Pro Muren. 9.: tulit.. (no one extols a speaker Vigilas tu de nocte tu tuis consultofor speaking intelligibly to his au- ribus respondeas: ille ut eo, quo indience), sed contempsit, etc. (but tendit, mature cum exercitu perveall despise one who cannot do so). niat; te gallorum, illum buccinarum 4. gravis annis. Cp. σὺν γήρᾳ cantus exsuscitat, II. B Ille, datis vadibus qui rure extractus in urbem est, Cetera de genere hoc, adeo sunt multa, loquacem Ille gravem duro terram qui vertit aratro, 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. vad". mihi deserit, he forfeits it,' i. e. by not appearing. Ibid. 23. vadari, 'to hold (a person) to bail.' See Sat. 1. ix. 36. 15 20 25 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 14. Fabium, Eques Rom. Nar- to the Tuscan dance; its next tranbonensis,' a stoic, fond of, and tire-sition to saturæ, with musical acsome in, argument,-if we may trust companiment; then a plot, dialogue, the allusion here, and Sat. L. ii. 1:4. 15. Si quis deus, etc. Sat. 11. vii. 24. 16. En ego, jam faciam. Comp. the abrupt emphatic position of jam in Liv. xxiii. 8.: Jam ego, inquit, sanguine Hannibalis sanciam R. fœdus. 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 At, ni id fit, quid habet pulchri constructus acervus ? 45 Non tuus hoc capiet venter plus ac meus: ut si Forte vehas humero, nihilo plus accipias quam 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. nautæ. i. e. mercatores, as in v. 6. 32. Compare Juvenal, xiv. 272275. 33. formica. Virg. Geor. i. 186. (and in Scripture, Proverbs, vi. 6.). 36. inversum. A favourite compound with Horace; perhaps here, as some suggest, borrowing its meaning from the "inversa Aquarii urna.' 50 Eo fit. limo 55 Mille aret? At suave est ex magno tollere acervo. 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 Rambler, 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, Tantum habet et fidei. 63. libenter quatenus, 'let him 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. σπep 8 TávTAλOS... ÉTIKEXNVÓTES μóvov T xpvolg.-Lucian. Timon. 17. .... sacris. Cp. Sat. II. iii. 109. sq. 73. Compare Pope, Mor. Essays, iii. 79. |