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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius

Note 703 — JUVENAL'S SATIRES. (continued 3)

Lewis Evans translation

E cœlo. This precept has been assigned to Socrates, Chilo, Thales, Cleobulus, Bias, Pythagoras. It was inscribed in gold letters over the portico of the temple of Delphi. Hence, perhaps, the notion afterward, that it was derived immediately from heaven.

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