Pauper Semper
Semper pauper eris, si pauper es, Aemiliane:
dantur opes nullis nunc nisi divitibus.
Poor once and poor forever, Nat, I fear;
None but the rich get place and pension here.
(N.B. Halhed)
None but the rich get place and pension here.
(N.B. Halhed)
Source: Martial (40 - c.104), Epigrammata, 5.81. Meter: Elegiac.
The vocabulary is keyed to the DCC Latin Vocabulary list. There is only one word in this poem that is not on the DCC list:
Aemiliānus (Aemiliānī, m.): Aemilianus
dīves, dīvitis: rich (poet. dīs, dītis)
do dare dedī datum: give
nisi/nī: if not, unless
nūllus -a -um: not any, no one
nunc: now
ops opis f.: assistance, resources
pauper -eris: poor, lowly
semper: always, ever
sī: if
sum, esse, fuī: be, exist
