C. CILNIVS MAECENAS
Reading edition
74-8 B.C.
108.
i
To Horace
LVCENTES, mea uita, nec smaragdos, beryllos neque, Flacce mi, nitentes nec percandida margarita quaero nec quos thunica lima perpoliuit anulos neque iaspios lapillos.
ii
Any Life is better than no life
DEBILEM facito manu, debilem pede, coxa, tuber adstrue gibberum, lubricos quate dentis: vita dum superest, bene est.