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		<description><![CDATA[Like the Athenian miser, who was wont To meet men&#8217;s curses with a hero&#8217;s front: &#8220;Folks hiss me,&#8221; said he, &#8220;but myself I clap When I tell o&#8217;er my treasures on my lap.&#8221; [Ut quidam memoratur Athenis sordidus ac dives, populi contemnere voces sic solitus: &#8216;populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo ipse domi, simul ac [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Like the Athenian miser, who was wont<br />
To meet men&#8217;s curses with a hero&#8217;s front:<br />
&#8220;Folks hiss me,&#8221; said he, &#8220;but myself I clap<br />
When I tell o&#8217;er my treasures on my lap.&#8221;</p>
<p><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><em>[Ut quidam memoratur Athenis<br />
sordidus ac dives, populi contemnere voces<br />
sic solitus: &#8216;populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo<br />
ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in arca.&#8217;]</em></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<br><b>Horace</b> (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]<br><i>Satires [Saturae, Sermones]</i>, Book 1, #  1 <i>&#8220;Qui fit, Mæcenas,&#8221;</i> l.  64ff (1.1.64-67) (35 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)] 
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(<a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0062%3Abook%3D1%3Apoem%3D1#:~:text=ut%20quidam%20memoratur,in%20arca.%27">Source (Latin)</a>). Other translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>Such one we reade of in olde tyme, that dwelte in Athins towne,<br>
A man in substance passinge rytche, nathlesse a niggerde cloune,<br>
At whose scarceheade, and covetyce the worlde did outas make,<br>
But all in vayne, he forste it not, he sought not howe to slake<br>
Blacke fame, that frisked everye wheare, and bounsed at ytche eare,<br>
"A figge for them (brasen face) I force not howe I heare,<br>
"They hauke, they hem, they hisse at me, I weygh it not an hawe,<br>
"Whilste I may harbor in mine arke, and lodge wythin my lawe<br>
"My darlynge goulde, my leaves gueste, my solace and my glee,<br>
"He is the bone companion, its he that cheares up me."<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A03670.0001.001/1:9.1?rgn=div2;view=fulltext#:~:text=Such%20one%20we,cheares%20vp%20me.">Drant</a> (1567)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Thus that Athenian Monster Timon, which<br>
Hated Man-kind, a sordid Knave, but rich,<br>
Was wont to say, When ere I walk abroad<br>
The People hiss me, but I do applaud<br>
And hug my self at home, when I behold<br>
My chests brim-full with Silver and with Gold.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=eebo;c=eebo;idno=a44478.0001.001;node=A44478.0001.001:7;seq=1;rgn=div1;view=text#:~:text=Thus%20that%20Athenian,and%20with%20Gold.">A. B.</a>; ed. Brome (1666)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Since He, as the Athenian Chuff, will cry<br>
The People hiss me, True, but what care I?<br>
Let the poor fools hiss me where e're I come,<br>
I bless my self to see my bags at home.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=eebo;c=eebo;idno=a44471.0001.001;node=A44471.0001.001:7;seq=1;rgn=div1;view=text#:~:text=Since%20He%2C%20as,bags%20at%20home%3A">Creech</a> (1684)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>At Athens liv'd a wight, in days of yore, <br>
Though miserably rich, yet fond of more, <br>
But of intrepid spirit to despise <br>
The abusive crowd. "Let them hiss on," he cries,<br>
" While, in my own opinion fully blest, <br>
I count my money, and enjoy my chest."<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresepistlesi00hora/page/6/mode/2up?q=%22liv%27d+a+wight%22">Francis</a> (1747)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Self-cursed as that same miser must have been,<br>
Who lived at Athens, rich as he was mean, --<br>
Who, when the people hiss'd, would turn about<br>
And drily thus accost the rabble-rout:<br>
"Hiss on; I heed you not, ye saucy wags,<br>
While self-applauses greet me o'er my bags."<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Epodes_Satires_and_Epistles_of_Horac/TPgDAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22who%20lived%20at%20athens%22">Howes</a> (1845)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>As a certain person is recorded [to have lived] at Athens, covetous and rich, who was wont to despise the talk of the people in this manner: “The crowd hiss me; but I applaud myself at home, as soon as I contemplate my money in my chest.”<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_works_of_Horace/First_Book_of_Satires#:~:text=As%20a%20certain%20person%20is%20recorded%20%5Bto%20have%20lived%5D%20at%20Athens%2C%20covetous%20and%20rich%2C%20who%20was%20wont%20to%20despise%20the%20talk%20of%20the%20people%20in%20this%20manner%3A%20%E2%80%9CThe%20crowd%20hiss%20me%3B%20but%20I%20applaud%20myself%20at%20home%2C%20as%20soon%20as%20I%20contemplate%20my%20money%20in%20my%20chest.%E2%80%9D">Smart/Buckley</a> (1853)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>As wretched as, at Athens, some rich miser was, who (as they say) was wont to thus despise what people said of him: "Aha ! the Public hiss, but in my heart I say I m right, directly that I gaze upon the coins in my strong-box."<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresofhoracei00hora/page/8/mode/2up?q=%22at+Athens%2C+some+rich%22">Millington</a> (1870)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>He is like a rich miser in Athens who, they say, used thus to scorn the people's talk: "The people hiss me, but at home I clap my hands for myself, once I gaze on the moneys in my chest."<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresepistlesa00horauoft/page/8/mode/2up?q=%22hke+a+rich+miser%22">Fairclough</a> (Loeb) (1926)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Like the man they tell of<br>
In Athens, filthy but rich, who despised the voice<br>
Of the people and kept saying, "So! The citizens hiss at me!<br>
Ah! But I applaud myself alone at home<br>
When I gaze on the coins in my strongbox."<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresanndepist0000hora/page/34/mode/2up?q=%22like+the+man+they%22">Palmer Bovie</a> (1959)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">They're like an Athenian I heard about <br>
Rich and stingy, he thought nothing of the people's snide remarks,<br> 
and always said, "They hiss me, but I applaud myself<br>
at home, as soon as I lay eyes on the money in my chest."<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/horacessatiresep0000hora/page/2/mode/2up?q=%22an+Athenian+i%22">Fuchs</a> (1977)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">As the Athenian miser<br>
Is said to have answered, when citizens<br>
Mocked him: "They hiss me, but at home I<br>
Applaud myself, counting the coins in my safe."<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/essentialhoraceo0000hora/page/132/mode/2up?q=%22athenian+miser%22">Raffel</a> (1983)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Like that one <br>
about whom the story was told in Athens: <br>
stingy and rich, he used to express <br>
his scorn of the people’s jibes with these words:<br>
"The people may hiss me, but at home<br>
I applaud myself as I contemplate<br>
my gold in the strongbox."<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/completeodessati0000hora/page/192/mode/2up?q=%22like+that+one%22">Alexander</a> (1999)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">He’s like the miser in Athens <br>
who scorned, it’s said, what people thought of him. <br>
“They hiss me in the streets, but once I’m home <br>
I stare at my bright coffers and applaud <br>
myself.”<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresofhorace0000hora_r9g5/page/2/mode/2up?q=%22like+the+miser%22">Matthews</a> (2002)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">He's like the rich<br>
Athenian miser who treated the people's remarks with contempt.<br>
"The people hiss me," he would say, "but I applaud myself<br>
when I reach home and set eyes on all the cash in my box!"<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresofhoracep00hora/page/4/mode/2up?q=%22he%27s+like+the+rich%22">Rudd</a> (2005 ed.)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Like the rich Athenian miser<br>
Who used to hold the voice of the crowd in contempt:<br>
"They hiss at me, that crew, but once I’m home I applaud<br>
Myself, as I contemplate all the riches in my chests."<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/HoraceSatiresBkISatI.php#anchor_Toc98155351:~:text=like%20the%20rich,in%20my%20chests.%E2%80%99">Kline</a> (2015)]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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