Egnatius, because he has bright white teeth,
\nalways smiles: If someone comes to the defendant’s
\nbench, when the speaker arouses weeping,
\nhe grins; If there is weeping at the funeral pyre of
\na dutiful son, when the bereaved mother laments her only son,
\nhe grins. Whatever it is, wherever he is,
\nwhatever he is doing, he grins: he has this disease,
\nneither elegant, as I think, nor refined.
\nTherefore I must warn you, my good Egnatius.
\nIf you were a city man or a Sabine or a Tiburnan
\nor a thrifty Umbrian or a fat Etruscan
\nor a swarthy or toothy Lanuvian or
\na Transpadane, to touch on my own people as well,
\nor anyone you like who cleans his teeth with clean water,
\nI still should not want you to smile on all occasions:
\nfor nothing is more silly than a silly smile.
\nNow you are a Celtiberian: in the land of Celtiberia,
\nwhatever each man has urinated, with this he is accustomed
\nin the morning to rub his teeth and gums until they are red,
\nso that the more polished those teeth of yours are,
\nthe more urine they proclaim you to have drunk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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