Note 694 — JUVENAL'S SATIRES. (continued 3)
Lewis Evans translation
Perlucente ruinâ. Cf. x., 107, "impulsæ præceps immane ruinæ." A metaphor from a building on the point of falling, with the daylight streaming through its cracks and fissures.
"Then with their prize to ruin'd walls repair, And eat the dainty scrap on earthenware." Badham.