212 to 222 ← 223 to 231 → 232 to 248
also a vignette
223 Si potes avelli circensibus, optima Sorae
224 aut Fabrateriae domus aut Frusinone paratur
- locatives?
225 quanti nunc tenebras unum conducis in annum.
- <in> + acc → until (some time), for (some time)
- quanti - ellipsis of quantī pretiī ? (from wikitionary)
226 hortulus hic puteusque brevis nec reste movendus
227 in tenuis plantas facili diffunditur haustu.
228 vive bidentis amans et culti vilicus horti
229 unde epulum possis centum dare Pythagoreis.
- centum is indeclinable yayyyyyy. can take with either epulum or Pythagoreis
230 est aliquid, quocumque loco, quocumque recessu,
231 unius sese dominum fecisse lacertae.
- fecisse - infinitive as the nominative verbal noun!! apposition with aliquid
- sese - object of fecisse (remember infinitives don't take subjects)
- dominum - apposition with sese
If you are able to snatch [yourself] away from the circus-games,
a great house at Sora or Fabrateria or Frusinone can be prepared
at the price you now rent a dark hole for one year.
Here [there is] a plot of ground for vegetables and the shallow well, not needing to be moved by a rope,
is poured out by easy drawing into slender plants.
Live married to your hoe and as a director of the cultivated garden
from where you would be able to give a feast to a hundred Pythagoreans.
It is something—in whatever place, in whatever remote retreat—
to have made himself the master of one lizard.