126 to 146 ← 147 to 163 → 164 to 170
147 quid quod materiam praebet causasque iocorum
- quid quod
- quid?
- quid est?
- quid est, quod praebet?
- quid, quod praebet?
- quid, [quod ... (one huge relative clause) ...]?
148 omnibus hic idem, si foeda et scissa lacerna,
- omnibus | (h)ic i|dem, si | foed(a) et | scissa la|cerna
149 si toga sordidula est et rupta calceus alter
- si toga | sordidu|la (e)st et | rupta | calceus | alter
- sordidula (a little dirty) is diminuitive of sordidus (= foeda)
150 pelle patet, vel si consuto volnere crassum
151 atque recens linum ostendit non una cicatrix?
- recens should be recente... adverb used as an adjective? lmao
152 nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se
153 quam quod ridiculos homines facit. "exeat" inquit,
154 "si pudor est, et de pulvino surgat equestri,
155 cuius res legi non sufficit, et sedeant hic
- res legi non sufficit the minimum fortune required of a knight was 400,000 sesterces. The law which established this distinction was the Lex Roscia Theatralis, introduced by the tribune L. Roscius Otho in 67 B.C.
156 lenonum pueri quocumque ex fornice nati,
- leno, lenonis masc
- fornix, fornicis masc - lit. an arch, vault, cellar, transf. a brothel
157 hic plaudat nitidus praeconis filius inter
158 pinnirapi cultos iuvenes iuvenesque lanistae."
- Whoremongers, auctioneers, and gladiators were all despised, and by the Lex Iulia Municipalis (44 B.C.) were debarred from office. But they were sometimes quite rich and so their sons might be smartly turned out (nitidus, cultos). The pinnirapus snatched feathers from the helmet of his heavily-armed opponent; the lanista was a manager or trainer.
159 sic libitum vano, qui nos distinxit, Othoni.
- libitum PAP of libet
160 quis gener hic placuit censu minor atque puellae
161 sarcinulis inpar? quis pauper scribitur heres?
- sarcinulis abl comparison with minor and inpar?
162 quando in consilio est aedilibus? agmine facto
163 debuerant olim tenues migrasse Quirites.
- tenuis, e adj — tenuo, tenuare, avi, atum
What is the material and reason of jokes offered
by this person to everyone, if the cloak is filthy and torn,
if the toga is a little dirty and the other shoe
is exposed by broken leather, or if, where the wound was stitched together, the thick
and recent thread is shown by not (merely) one scar?
Unlucky poverty has nothing harder in itself
than that which makes people ridiculous. "Xe should leave," xe says,
"If xe is a disgrace, and from the squab xe rises to the equestrian (order),
xe whose matters do not satisfy a law, and here sits
the pimp's boys born from whatever brothel,
here the polished son of a public crier may applaud between
the well-dressed youths of gladiators and youths of gladiator-trainers."
Thus it is pleasing to the empty Otho, who divides us.
Which son-in-law was pleasing with gifts, less than a girl's
small bundles and ill-matched? Which poor man is written as heir?
When he is in counsel for the aediles? With the line made,
the impoverished Romans had once been obligated to depart.