Ut meminit nostri? Terraene caelo perfrueris memor, qualem insiti divinitus ingeni dotes in angustis foventem pauperies tulit arcta pagi: qui vincit obstans immerito genus, praetervolanti se citus applicat Fortunae et adversis repugnat vim donec instans protulit igneam, et clave tandem praeditus aurea stat Roma quid decernat auctor, quo patribus sonet ore Caesar : And moving up from high to higher, The pillar of a people's hope, The centre of a world's desire; Yet feels as in a pensive dream, A distant dearness in the hill, The limit of his narrower fate, While yet beside its vocal springs He play'd at counsellors and kings, With one that was his earliest mate; Who ploughs with toil his native lea, TENNYSON. mox arce rerum semper in altius tendens resistit, publica civium tutela, quem sperans in uno. sollicitus veneratur orbis. idem remissis est ubi viribus collem quieta deses imagine requirit Arpinum, requirit dulcis adhuc saliceta rivi, angustiorum limitis artium, donec canoris accola fontibus reges senatoresque primi cum socio simulabat aevi : qui sulcat aegre rus patrium, metens quos sevit agros, aut patitur boves. cessare, dum secum: meine forte vetus meminit sodalis? TIMON. YET thanks I must you con, That you are thieves profess'd, that you work not In limited professions. Rascal thieves, Here's gold. Go, suck the subtle blood o' the grape, Till the high fever seethe your blood to froth, And so 'scape hanging; trust not the physician; His antidotes are poison, and he slays More than you rob; take wealth and lives together; Do villany, do, since you protest to do't, ΤΙΜΩΝ. δεῖ μήν τιν' ἀλλὰ τοῦδέ μ ̓ εἰδέναι χάριν, οἱ γ ̓ ἐκ προδήλου κλέπτετ ̓ οὐδὲ τἀσεβεῖν ὡς εὐσεβεῖς ἀσκεῖτε ταῖς γὰρ ἐννόμοις τεχνῶν ἕπονται μυριοπληθεῖς κλοπαί. ὅδ ̓, ὦ πανούργοι, χρυσός· ἔρρετ', ἀμπέλου αἷμ ̓ ὀξὺ κάρτ ̓ ἐκπίνεθ ̓, ὥστ ̓ ἀκμῇ φλογὸς ζέοντα πέλανον ἐξαφρίζεσθαι φλεβών, αΐδου κρεμαστοῦ φεύξιν· ἰατρῷ δ ̓ ὅπως πείσεσθε μηδέν· ὀλοὰ γὰρ τὰ φάρμακα, κτείνει δὲ πλείους κεῖνος ἢ συλᾷ κλοπεύς. οὐχ οὓς ἀποστερεῖτε κἀξολεῖθ ̓ ἅπαξ, μηδ ̓ ἣν ἐπαγγέλλεσθε χειρωναξίαν |