Shall I in homespun cloth be clad, that he His paunch in triumph may before him see? Go, miser, go; for lucre sell thy soul; Truck wares for wares, and trudge from pole to pole, That men may say, when thou art dead and gone, See what a vast estate he left his son! How large a family of brawny knaves, Well fed, and fat as Cappadocian slaves![267] Increase thy wealth, and double all thy store; } 'Tis done; now double that, and swell the score; } To every thousand add ten thousand more. } Then say, Chrysippus,[268] thou who would'st confine Thy heap, where I shall put an end to mine. FOOTNOTES: [255] Note I. [256] Note II. [257] Note III. [258] Note IV. [259] Note V. [260] Note VI. [261] Note VII. [262] Note VIII. [263] Note IX. [264] Note X. [265] Note XI. [266] Note XII. [267] Note XIII. [268] Note XIV. NOTES ON TRANSLATIONS FROM PERSIUS. SATIRE VI. Note I. _Has winter caused thee, friend, to change thy seat, And seek in Sabine air a warm retreat._--P. 268. All the studious, and particularly the poets, about the end of August, began to set themselves on work, refraining from writing during the heats of the summer. They wrote by night, and sat up the greatest part of it; for which reason the product of their studies was called their elucubrations, or nightly labours. They who had country-seats retired to them while they studied, as Persius did to his, which was near the port of the Moon in Etruria; and Bassus to his, which was in the country of the Sabines, nearer Rome. Note II. _Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth._--P. 268. This proves Cæsius Bassus to have been a lyric poet. It is said of him, that by an eruption of the flaming mountain Vesuvius, near which the greatest part of his fortune lay, he was burnt himself, together with all his writings. Note III. _Who in a drunken dream beheld his soul The fifth within the transmigrating roll._--P. 269. I call it a drunken dream of Ennius; not that my author, in this place, gives me any encouragement for the epithet, but because Horace, and all who mention Ennius, say he was an excessive drinker of wine. In a dream, or vision, call you it which you please, he thought it was revealed to him, that the soul of Pythagoras was transmigrated into him; as Pythagoras before him believed, that himself had been Euphorbus in the wars of Troy. Commentators differ in placing the order of this soul, and who had it first. I have here given it to the peacock; because it looks more according to the order of nature, that it should lodge in a creature of an inferior species, and so by gradation rise to the informing of a man. And Persius favours me, by saying, that Ennius was the fifth from the Pythagorean peacock. Note IV. _My friend is shipwrecked on the Brutian strand._--P. 270.