302 to 314 ← 315 to 322
315 His alias poteram et pluris subnectere causas,
- ASK alias why not adv meaning "at some other time"? (commentary says it dsc/ causas)
- ASK his what???
316 sed iumenta vocant et sol inclinat. eundum est;
- did you know that eo ire ii itus is passive
317 nam mihi commota iamdudum mulio virga
318 adnuit. ergo vale nostri memor, et quotiens te
319 Roma tuo refici properantem reddet Aquino,
320 me quoque ad Helvinam Cererem vestramque Dianam
321 converte a Cumis. saturarum ego, ni pudet illas,
- pudet: transitive, usually impersonal. with accusative ‘person who is ashamed’ and genitive ‘thing/person causing shame’
- illas - referring to the saturae???
322 auditor gelidos veniam caligatus in agros.'
I was able to tie other reasons of more things underneath these things,
But the horses call and the sun sinks. Departure is necessary;
since the mule-driver signalled me long ago with the excited whip.
Thus, goodbye, be remembering of us, and as often as
Rome will return to restore hurrying you to your Aquinum,
also direct me back from Cumae to Helvetian Ceris and our Diana.
I of the satires, unless it causes shame to them,
will go as a boot-wearing auditor into cold farms.