• Anonymous translation from the Latin
    From Satire XIII.
    THE SPARTAN rogue who, boldly bent on fraud,
    Dared ask the god to sanction and applaud,
    And sought for counsel at the Pythian shrine,
    Received for answer from the lips divine,—
    “That he who doubted to restore his trust,
    And reasoned much, reluctant to be just,
    Should for those...