DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit: BE it remembered, that on the twelfth day of August, A. D. 1828, and in the fifty-third year of the Independence of the United States of America, Hilliard, Gray, Little, & Wilkins, of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit: "D. Junii Juvenalis Satire expurgatæ. Accedunt Note Anglicæ. In usum Scholæ Bostoniensis. Cura F. P Leverett." In conformity to an act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned;" and also to an act, entitled "An act supplementary to an act, entitled An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. TENOX LIBRANT NEWYCH CAMBRIDGE: Hilliard, Metcalf, & Co. D. JUNII JUVENALIS AQUINATIS SATIRARUM LIBER PRIMUS. SATIRA I. SEMPER ego auditor tantùm? nunquamne reponam, Impunè ergo mihi recitaverit ille togatas, Hic elegos? impunè diem consumpserit ingens Nota magis nulli domus est sua, quàm mihi lucus 5 1.0 Et nos ergo manum ferulæ subduximus, et nos 15 25 Cur tamen hoc potiùs libeat decurrere campo, Per quem magnus equos Aurunca flexit alumnus, o 20° Si vacat, et placidi rationem admittitis, edam. Quum tener uxorem ducat spado, Mævia Tuscum Figat aprum, et nudâ teneat venabula mammâ ; Patricios omnes opibus quum provocet unus, Quo tondente gravis juveni mihi barba sonabat; Quum pars Niliaca plebis, quum verna Canopi Crispinus, Tyrias humero revocante lacernas, Ventilet æstivum digitis sudantibus aurum, Nec sufferre queat majoris pondera gemmæ ; Difficile est Satiram non scribere. Nam quis iniquæ 30 Tam patiens urbis, tam ferreus, ut teneat se, Causidici nova quum veniat lectica Mathonis Plena ipso? post hunc magni delator amici, Et citò rapturus de nobilitate comesâ, Quod superest, quem Massa timet, quem munere pal pat Carus, et a trepido Thymele submissa Latino? Quid referam, quantâ siccum jecur ardeat irâ, Quum populum gregibus comitum premit hic spoliator Pupilli prostantis? et hic damnatus inani Judicio (quid enim salvis infamia nummis ?) Exsul ab octavâ Marius bibit, et fruitur dîs Iratis; at tu, victrix provincia, ploras? Hæc ego non credam Venusinâ digna lucernâ? 35 40 Hæc ego non agitem? Sed quid magis Heracleas, 45 50 55 Hinc atque inde patens, ac nudâ pænè cathedrâ, Signator falso, qui se lautum atque beatum Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere dignum, - Si vis esse aliquis: probitas laudatur et alget. Criminibus debent hortos, prætoria, mensas, Ex quo Deucalion, nimbis tollentibus æquor, 60 65 70 Navigio montem ascendit sortesque poposcit, 75 Quidquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, Et quando uberior vitiorum copia? quando Major avaritiæ patuit sinus? alea quando 80 Hos animos? Neque enim loculis comitantibus itur Perdere, et horrenti tunicam non reddere servo? Sed libertinus prior est. Prior, inquit, ego adsum. Conductas Corvinus oves? Ego possideo plus 85 90 95 100 |