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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius

Note 994 — JUVENAL'S SATIRES. (continued 3)

Lewis Evans translation

Cito vult fieri. Cf. Menand., οὐδεὶς ἐπλούτησε ταχέως δίκαιος ὤν. Prov., xxviii., 20, "He that maketh haste to be rich, shall not be innocent."

"What law restrains, what scruples shall prevent The desperate man on swift possessions bent?" Badham.

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