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.



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