Spectabat modo solus inter omnes
nigris munus Horatius lacernis, cum plebs et minor ordo maximusque sancto cum duce candidus sederet. Toto nix cecidit repente caelo: albis spectat Horatius lacernis. Alone among all the rest the other day, Horatius viewed the show in a black cloack, Although the common people And the lower and the highest orders, Together with our hallowed Chief, sat in white. From every door of heaven snow suddenly fell: It is in a white cloack now that Horatius looks on. |
Martial, Epigrams, Book 4, II
English translation by Walter C. A. Ker
English translation by Walter C. A. Ker
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