A New Reading
TOWARDS the close of the administration of Sir Robert Walpole, he was
talking very freely to some of his friends of the vanity and vexations
of office, and, alluding to his intended retirement, quoted from Horace
the following passage:--
Lusisti satis, edisti satis, atque bibisti:
Tempus abire tibi est.
Pray, Sir Robert, said one of his friends, is that good Latin?--I
think so, answered Sir. Robert; what objection have you to
it?--Why, said the other dryly, I did not know but the word might be
bribe-isti in your Horace.