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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius

Note 1231 — PERSIUS.

Lewis Evans translation

Sumen. Juv., xi., 81; xii., 73. Lucil., v., fr. 5. "You purchase their applause by the good dinners you give them." Cf. Hor., i., Epist. xix., 37, "Non ego ventosæ plebis suffragia venor Impensis cœnarum et tritæ munere vestis."

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