You, Venus confidante,
You, which Cupid
And children play Citer
Throne decorated with flowers,
Whose delicate examples,
Smile, eyes, gentle tone
eloquently, than Voltaire,
We propovedayut law
And Aristipov, and glyceryl, —
You affable bow,
Love wreath and lyre ringing.
Defying Platonic chimera,
I saved your holiness,
And there was a wise apostle of faith
Anacreon and Ninon:
Just ... but only a known measure. —
I see: Zenon hmurytsya,
And all of his gray suite:
And a wise friend of wine Cato,
And boring slave Epafrodita,
Seneca, even Cicero
shout: “You are lying, layman! torment -
Direct mortal enjoyment!”
Friends, I agree: cry and moan
Stokrat, of course, is better than laughter;
Endure great joy;
Tip your not funny:
But I like it, l hear, not needed,
Beyond that, that too he wisely;
Dearer to me than a good dinner
Philosophers entire three dozen:
I you, right, not seduced. —
Cathedral sullen angry.
But let him cry on the foe,
Their dispute - only time loss
Who is seduced by their example?
I love a good Socrates!
He lived in the world, He was smart;
With his importance sham
loved feasts, theaters, wives;
is he, between Procchio, I was in love
And Aspasia in restroom
(A witness Plato),
Slave timid and submissive,
I sighed chastehonko the coat,
And with a smile court
whispered: “A ghost, lie and sleep:
And wisdom, and the people, and Glory;
Well true? Entertainment passable,
Trust: one love is not a dream!”
So incense burned it beautiful,
And it ... poor Ksantipa!
Your husband, sovmestnik Aristipa,
I have been lifted up to the sky.
Meanwhile,, on pretty menacingly barking.
evil cynic, care despised,
One of the joys of deprived,
Breathing from the world excommunicated.
But with a barrel wandering a desolate
Vosled Wisdom for a blind,
Blank crank was blinded;
And water scooping hand,
could not scoop up the happiness he.
