Brutus, or On Eminent Orators Passage 75

recte , inquam, Brute, intellegis. Atque utinam exstarent illa carmina, quae multis saeculis ante suam aetatem in epulis esse cantitata a singulis convivis de clarorum virorum laudibus in Originibus scriptum reliquit Cato! Tamen illius, quem in vatibus et Faunis adnumerat Ennius, bellum Punicum quasi Myronis opus delectat.

"You understand correctly, Brutus," I said. "And would that those songs survived which, as Cato recorded in his Origins, individual guests used to sing at banquets many centuries before his own time in praise of famous men! Nevertheless, the Punic War of Naevius, whom Ennius counts among bards and Fauns, delights us like a work of Myron."

«Tu comprends bien, Brutus, répondis-je. Plût aux dieux que subsistassent ces chants dont Caton rapporte, dans ses Origines, que, bien des siècles avant son temps, chaque convive les chantait dans les festins à la gloire des hommes illustres! Pourtant la Guerre punique de celui qu'Ennius compte parmi les devins et les Faunes nous charme comme une œuvre de Myron.»