Roman Multiculturalism

While the toddler was watching his morning alphabet-indoctrination program, I read through the small amount of Latin that remains of Florus' carmina.

Sperne mores transmarinos, mille habent offucia. 

cive Romano per orbem nemo vivit rectius: 

quippe malim unum Catonem quam trecentos Socratas.

 

Shun the morals brought across seas; they've a thousand trickeries. 

None in all the world lives straighter than a citizen of Rome. 

Why, I prize one Cato more than fifteen score like Socrates.                                             (trans. Duff & Duff)

To make use of my mornings with the toddler while the wife sleeps in with the newborn, I think I shall continue this program of reading through all of select authors.