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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius

Note 551 — JUVENAL'S SATIRES. (continued 2)

Lewis Evans translation

Nebulâ. Cf. Plat., Alcib., ii., τῆς ψυχῆς ἀφελόντα τὴν ἀχλύν; from which many ideas in this Satire, particularly toward the close, are borrowed.

"As treacherous phantoms in the mist delude, Shuns fancied ills, or chases, airy good." Johnson's imitation.

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