To see the weary oxen drag the inverted plough, And at their posts the slaves, the rich man's household-bees, When thus had spoken Alfius, the millionaire, He called in all his money on the Ides, and, when EPODON LIBER. CARMEN IV Lupis et agnis quanta sortito optigit, Hibericis peruste funibus latus Et crura dura compede. Licet superbus ambules pecunia, Cum bis trium ulnarum toga, Liberrima indignatio? 'Sectus flagellis hic triumviralibus Praeconis ad fastidium Arat Falerni mille fundi iugera Et Appiam mannis terit EPODE IV. Not wolf and lamb more disagree And freely indignation show: "This fellow the sheriffs had flogged to death, 'Had not the beadle lost his breath, 'A thousand acres farms '-they say— 'His nags, they tramp the Appian way; |