Authority Cited: Persius
Author name and dates: Aulus Persius Flaccus (34-62)
BKG Bio-tweet: Latin poet, satirist; educated in Rome; wrote history and travel; friend of Lucan; influenced by Horace; high moral purpose
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Persius cite in vol. 2 of the 1755 Dict., perhaps from memory. About 20 quotes of Dryden's Persius translation in 1755 Dict. vol. 1 and about 20 in Dict. vol. 2. No additional cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. In the 1773 Dict., all of the "Dryden's Persius" cites, under the letter "L" and part of the letter "M" are misspelled "Dryden's Perseus." Item 196 in the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, a Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed. is Juvenalis & Persius, Casauboni, L.B. 1695.]
Satires Prologue, lines 12-14 in Loeb edition:
quod si dolosi spes refulserit nummi,
corvos poetas et poetridas picas
cantare credas Pegaseium nectar.
Loeb translation:
Just let the prospect of deceitful money gleam
and you’d think raven poets and poetess magpies
were chanting the nectar of Pegasus.
Author name and dates: Aulus Persius Flaccus (34-62)
BKG Bio-tweet: Latin poet, satirist; educated in Rome; wrote history and travel; friend of Lucan; influenced by Horace; high moral purpose
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Persius cite in vol. 2 of the 1755 Dict., perhaps from memory. About 20 quotes of Dryden's Persius translation in 1755 Dict. vol. 1 and about 20 in Dict. vol. 2. No additional cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. In the 1773 Dict., all of the "Dryden's Persius" cites, under the letter "L" and part of the letter "M" are misspelled "Dryden's Perseus." Item 196 in the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, a Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed. is Juvenalis & Persius, Casauboni, L.B. 1695.]
- [Satires, Prologue] in Juvenal and Persius, Loeb Classical Library, LCL 91, 2004, pp. 44-45, Edited and translated by Susanna Morton Braund; poetress
Satires Prologue, lines 12-14 in Loeb edition:
quod si dolosi spes refulserit nummi,
corvos poetas et poetridas picas
cantare credas Pegaseium nectar.
Loeb translation:
Just let the prospect of deceitful money gleam
and you’d think raven poets and poetess magpies
were chanting the nectar of Pegasus.