1. As for those who envy me, I do not blame them;

    before me, men of merit among mankind were envied.

  2. So may what is in me and what is in them endure—mine for me, theirs for them;

    and may whichever of us is more enraged die of what he feels.

  3. I am the one they have found lodged in their throats,

    neither rising out of them nor being swallowed down.

  4. There is nothing I hope to achieve that vexes them

    but I have more of its kind in reserve for them.

Sol 5.6