vena: the figure is probably taken from a vein of ore. φλέψ, Xen. Vect. 2. 5. Cf. sine divite vena, Epist. 2.3.409. But the Roman poets also thought of vena aquae. Cf. Ovid, Trist. 3.14.33; Auson. Mosella, 448, ast ego quanta mei dederit se vena liquoris. For benigna, cf. Tenn. Edwin Morris, 'But you can talk, yours is a kindly vein.' Cf.''Ercles' vein,' etc. pauperemque dives: cf. on 1.6. 9; Sellar, p. 176. The Greeks rang the changes on the saying about the wise man going to the doors of the rich. For me petit, cf. on 2.20.6.
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Horace. Odes and Epodes. Edited with commentary by. Paul Shorey. revised by. Paul Shorey and Gordon J. Laing. New York. Benj. H. Sanborn and Co. 1910.
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