C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
A Childs Trick
By Persius (3462 A.D.)
Translation of William Cranston Lawton
I
With oil, in boyhood, if I did not wish
To learn by heart the dying Cato’s words;
Which my daft master loudly would applaud,
And with a glow of pride my father heard
As I recited to his gathered friends.