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Paupertatem summis ingeniis obesse
ne provehantur.[1]
Poverty prevents the advancement of the best of abilities
XV.
Dextra tenet lapidem, manus altera sustinet alas:
Ut me pluma levat, sic grave mergit onus.
Ingenio poteram superas volitare per arces,
Me nisi paupertas invida deprimeret.
My right hand holds a rock, the other bears wings. As the feathers lift me, so the heavy weight drags me down. By my mental gifts I could have flown through the heights of heaven, if malign poverty did not hold me back.
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COMMENTARIA.
Adolescentulus cuidam proponitur, cui ma
nu dextra ponderosus dependet lapis, sinistrae
verò eius, alae affixae sunt levissimae. Utique
hae in altum elevant, sic onus illud grave alia
ex parte deprimit. Ostendens plurimos ob
ingenii felicitatem celebres & claros futuros.
nisi paupertas invida depressos retineret. Est
etenim illa molestum pondus, ut plerique nos-
se nollent, plurium nanque quotidianus est
cibus. Et paupertatis unicum incommodum
habere sapientem dixit Archytas Philosophus.
1. For the sentiment cf. Juvenal, Satires 3.164-5: ‘it is hard for people to rise when straitened circumstances stand in the way of their natural abilities.’
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