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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius

Note 861 — JUVENAL'S SATIRES. (continued 3)

Lewis Evans translation

Ignoscere. "Contemnere pauper creditur atque deos diis ignoscentibus ipsis," iii., 145. So Plautus:

"Atque hoc scelesti illi in animum inducunt suum. Jovem se placare posse donis hostiis, Et operam et sumptum perdunt: ideo fit, quia Nihil ei acceptum est a perjuris supplicii."

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