1. The justice of keen swords is the justest of judgments;

    and spearpoints write more tellingly than pens.

  2. How fitting that one ungrateful for prosperity should wake

    to find his ingratitude the cause of his destitution.

  3. Whoever is corrupted by being honored,

    humiliation is more fitting for him than honor.

  4. So I left them fallen—as though, before your eyes, with keen swords

    I had plied them, amid battle’s terror, with a cup of wine—

  5. shunning one another despite their closeness, as though

    their heads disdained their bodies.

Sol 5.6