Circa dialecticam tempus cur consumis, Tu qui nullos redditus aliunde sumis? Colat qui per patriam natus est e summis, Dives agro, dives positis in fænore nummis. Dives in fallaciis discat esse fortis; Discat capram facere de persona sortis. Artes nunquam deserat citra tempus mortis. Contentus fama latent Lucanus in hortis. Si forte deliquerit artibus imbutus, Ad legistas fugiet si vult esse tutus: Quia se defendere nescit plus quam mutus, Græcorum studia nimium diuque sequutus. Atria nobilium video patere; Cum legista venerit dissolvuntur ceræ. Exclusus ad januam poteris sedere, Ipse licet venias musis comitatus, Homere. Logicus araneæ potest comparari, Quæ subtiles didicit telas operari, Quæ suis visceribus volunt consummari;
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cultivated by thee.--Why do you consume your time upon dialectics, thou who receivest no income from other sources? Let him cultivate it who is born of high family in the country, rich in land and rich in money laid out at interest.--Let the rich man learn to be strong in fallacies; let him learn to make a she-goat of the person of chance. Let him never desert the arts, before the hour of his death. Satisfied with fame, let Lucan lie hid in the gardens.--If imbued in the arts he should chance to fail, he will fly to the legists if he will be safe: because he knows no more how to defend himself than one who is dumb, having pursued too much and too often the study of the Greeks.--I see the halls of the nobles open; when the legist comes, the bolts are undone; thou, shut out, mayest sit at the door, although thou thyself, Homer, shouldst come along with the muses. -- The logician may be compared to a spider, which learns to spin subtle webs, that are made out of its own bowels; the reward is a fly, if by
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Publication Information: Book Title: The Political Songs of England: From the Reign of John to That of Edward II. Contributors: Thomas Wright - editor, Thomas Wright - transltr. Publisher: Camden Society. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1839. Page Number: 209.
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