book 1 That all, but especially the covetous, think their own condition the hardest. lines 61ff. Bad men, when they avoid certain vices, fall into their opposite extremes. lines 64ff. We ought to connive at the faults of our friends, and all offenses are not to be ranked in the catalogue of crimes. lines 38-75 lines 76ff. He apologizes for the liberties taken by satiric poets in general, and particularly by himself lines 39-62 lines 63-112 lines 113ff. He describes a certain journey of his from Rome to Brundusium with great pleasantry. lines 39-85 lines 86ff. Of true nobility. lines 65ff. He humorously describes a squabble betwixt Rupilius and Persius. Priapus complains that the Esquilian mount is infested with the incantations of sorceresses. He describes his sufferings from the loquacity of an impertinent fellow. lines 35ff. He supports the judgment which he had before given of Lucilius, and intersperses some excellent precepts for the writing of Satire. lines 50ff. book 2 He supposes himself to consult with Trebatius, whether he should desist from writing satires, or not. lines 47ff. On Frugality. lines 53-88 lines 89ff. Damasippus, in a conversation with Horace , proves this paradox of the Stoic philosophy, that most men are actually mad. lines 43-76 lines 77-121 lines 122-167 lines 168-223 lines 224-280 lines 281ff. He ridicules the absurdity of one Catius, who placed the summit of human felicity in the culinary art. lines 47ff. In a humorous dialogue between Ulysses and Tiresias, he exposes those arts which the fortune hunters make use of, in order to be appointed the heirs of rich old men. lines 58ff. He sets the conveniences of a country retirement in opposition to the troubles of a life in town. lines 59ff. One of Horace's slaves, making use of that freedom which was allowed them at the Saturnalia,

The particular design of the Saturnalia was to represent that equality, which reigned among mankind in the reign of Saturn, when they lived according to the laws of nature, without distinction of conditions. Horace here introduces a slave, asserting that a wise man alone is free, and that real liberty consists in not obeying our passions, or being enslaved to vice. He boldly reproaches his master with his faults and follies. His reasoning is so natural, sensible, and pressing, that Horace, not being able to answer him, at last loses his temper, and is obliged to make use of menaces to silence him.

rates his master in a droll and severe manner. lines 46-82 lines 83ff. A smart description of a miser ridiculously acting the extravagant. lines 54ff.