Social Commentaries
Epigram: In vain I praise thee, Zoilus
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Social Commentaries
In vain I praise thee, Zoilus!
In vain thou rail'st at me!
Me no one credits, Zoilus!
And no one credits thee!
'Frustra ego te laudo, frustra
Me, Zoile, laedis;
Nemo mihi credit,
Zoile, nemo, tibi.'
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Codex Note
Adapted by Coleridge from George Buchanan's Latin epigram In Zoilum
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