1.5 34-42 Translation

Freely we abandon the fields for the praetor Afidius Luscus, the lauging rewards for the insane scribe, and the toga praetexta and the broad purple stripe and the chafting dish of hoar frost. Then we, weary, remain in Mamurrarae, we remain in the house with the eel offering, we remain in the kitchen with the fraud. Afterwards the very graceful night rises; for Plotius and Varius of Sinuessa and Vergil come here, their minds, the nature of which neither brighter the earth brought forth nor any other who may be more bound than me.