{"id":50,"date":"2005-08-27T00:31:38","date_gmt":"2005-08-27T04:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.2\/~curculio\/?p=50"},"modified":"2013-08-19T00:37:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T05:37:08","slug":"fulke-art-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Fulke Art II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s another neoclassical poem from Caelica<\/em>, number XCIII complete:<\/p>\n

\n

The Augurs were of all the world admir’d,
\nFlatter’d by consuls, honor’d by the State,
\nBecause the event of all that was desir’d,
\nThey seem’d to know, and keep the books of Fate:
\n    Yet though abroad they thus did boast their wit,
\n    Along among themselves they scorned it.<\/p>\n

Mankind, that with his wit doth gild his heart,
\nStrong in his passions, but in goodness weak;
\nMaking great vices o’er the less an art,
\nBreeds wonder, and moves ignorance to speak,
\n    Yet when his fame is to the highest borne,
\n    We know enough to laugh his praise to scorn.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I just spent half an hour trying to track down the source for the first stanza, the passage where Cicero (or perhaps a character in one of his dialogues?) says that he can’t see how two augurs could meet in the street without laughing out loud. Cicero was himself an augur, so he would know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s another neoclassical poem from Caelica, number XCIII complete: The Augurs were of all the world admir’d, Flatter’d by consuls, honor’d by the State, Because the event of all that was desir’d, They seem’d to know, and keep the books … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140,44],"tags":[48,152,318],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-literature","category-latin-literature","tag-cicero","tag-fulke","tag-nachleben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}