human
and, like Pope's courtly dean,
gpt
Omne vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amico Tangit, et admissus circum præcordia ludit, Callidus excusso populum suspendere naso.
human
He, with a sly insinuating grace, Laugh'd at his friend, and look'd him in the face: Would raise a blush, where secret vice he found, And tickle, while he gently probed the wound: With seeming innocence the crowd beguiled; But made the desperate passes when he smiled. These beautiful lines have a defect under which Dryden's translations frequently labor; they do not give the true sense of the original. Horace
gpt
(at least Persius does not insinuate any such thing), and certainly