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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius

Note 1931 — BOOK XXIX.

Lewis Evans translation

Magna mercede. Merces, i. e., "cost, injury, detriment." Cic., Fam., i., 9, "In molestia gaudeo te eam fidem cognoscere hominum non ita magnâ mercede, quam ego maximo dolore cognôram." The sentiment is probably the same as Cato's, "asse carum esse dicebat, quo non opus esset."

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