CONSOLATIO PHILOSOPHIAE 3 metrum 3 | TRUE WEALTH |
Boethius | tr. James Harpur |
Quamuis fluente diues auri gurgite non expleturas cogat auarus opes oneretque bacis colla rubri litoris ruraque centeno scindat opima boue, nec cura mordax deserit superstitem defunctumque leues non comitantur opes. | Rich people may enjoy their streams of gold, which always fails to satisfy their greed, stoop down from heavy strings of Red Sea pearls and have a hundred oxen plough their fields yet worries still devour them while they live and fickle wealth goes nowhere in the grave. |
Transl. Copyright © James Harpur 2007