Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus [Suetonius]
69-130 AD
Trans RMBullard
Latin (Imperial Era)
C. SVETONI TRANQVILLVI DE POETIS
VITA HORATI
Q. HORATIUS FLACCUS, Venusinus,
[Quintus Horatius Flaccus was from Venusia,]
patre ut ipse tradit libertino et exactionum coactore
[as even he admitted that his father was a freedman and debt collector]
(ut vero creditum est salsamentario,
[as, in fact, it is believed to be tongue in cheek]
cum illi quidam in altercatione exprobrasset:
[when a certain fellow had chewed him out in an altercation:]
"Quotiens ego vidi patrem tuum brachio se emungentem!")
["I've so often seen your father milking himself himself with its arm!"]
bello Philippensi excitus a Marco Bruto imperatore, tribunus militum meruit;
[He was recruited during the war in Philippi by his commander Marcus Brutus, and he served as military tribune;]
victisque partibus venia impetrata scriptum quaestorium comparavit.
[when his faction was defeated, and he gained pardon, he prepared the written records for the quaestor.]
Ac primo Maecenati, mox Augusto insinuatus non mediocrem in amborum amicitia locum tenuit.
[And he enjoyed a rather prestigious friendship, first with Maecenas, then with Augustus.]
Maecenas quantopere eum dilexerit satis testatur illo epigrammate:
[How greatly did Maecenas favor him, enough for him to speak the following of that man in an epigram:]
