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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius

Note 1435 — PERSIUS.

Lewis Evans translation

Tenax veri. "Because the decrees pronounced by Destiny at each man's birth have their inevitable issue." So Horace, "Parca non mendax," ii., Od. xvi., 39.

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