It seems allowed that Juvenal took the cue of his tenth Satire, as well as Persius of his second, from the Dialogue of Plato aforesaid. “Evertêre domos totas, optantibus ipsis, Dii faciles. Nocitura togâ, nocitura petuntur Militiâ.” Or, as Englished by Mr. Owen of Warrington: “Th’ indulgent gods whole houses have o’erthrown At men’s own prayer;—the fatal choice their own. In war we ask but woes; in peace but woes,” etc. The Crassi, Pompeii, and the like, are represented as ruined by the assent of Heaven to their ambitious prayers— “Magnaque numinibus vota exaudita _malignis_.” Naples to Pompey a kind fever gave, to hide his honours in a welcome grave (the poetry of Parson Owen may pardonably be printed as prose). But public prayers arise: the gods allow the health requested by the erring vow: by Rome’s and his cross fate that grave he fled, and lived—to lose his honours and his head. ... “Sed multæ urbes, et publica vota Vicerunt. Igitur fortuna ipsius, et urbis, Servatum victo caput abstulit.” Juvenal crowds his satire with cases in point, historical and mythological, political and domestic. The sum of the discourse is this: that man should allow the higher powers themselves to determine what may be of advantage to him, and suitable to his real wants,—he being dearer to them than to himself: “Permittes ipsis expendere Numinibus quid Conveniat nobis, rebusque sit utile nostris: Nam pro jocundis aptissima quæque dabunt Dii. Carior est illis homo quàm sibi.”