Note 790 — JUVENAL'S SATIRES. (continued 3)
Lewis Evans translation
Digitis. Cf. xiv, 289, "Tabulâ distinguitur undâ." Ovid. Amor. ii. xi. 25, "Navita sollicitus qua ventos horret iniquos; Et prope tam letum quam prope cernit aquam."
"Trust to a little plank 'twixt death and thee, And by four inches 'scape eternity." Hodgson.