Wednesday, September 04, 2019

 

The Simple Life

Horace, Satires 1.3.13-15 (Tigellius speaking; tr. H. Rushton Fairclough):
Give me a three-legged table, a shell of clean salt, and a coat that, however coarse, can keep out the cold.

                                   sit mihi mensa tripes et
concha salis puri et toga, quae defendere frigus
quamvis crassa queat.
Tigellius here reminds me of the moneylender Alfius in Horace's second epode.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 4:55 PM


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