Unit 1 · poem · elegiac_couplet · 4 lines
Latin
Source text
Omne tulit punctum, myrothecas excutit, amplè
Hippocratis gnomas expediítque breues.
Sedulò verſatum ſcriptis melioribus Index
Significat: drachmam fœnerat inde ſuam.
English text
He has won every point, he inspects the ointment-boxes,
and has amply explained the brief aphorisms of Hippocrates.
The Index indicates that he was diligently versed in the better writings:
from them he puts his own drachma out to interest.