After Horace, Epistles 1.18.84-85
I mind your business, I admit,
For I am not a liar.
It’s my concern if (Horace says)
The house next door’s on fire.
Note: “Su Casa Es Mi Casa” means “Your House Is My House.”
E.J. Hutchinson is associate professor of classics at Hillsdale College (MI) and director of Hillsdale’s Collegiate Scholars Program. His poems and translations have appeared in New Verse Review, Nimrod, First Things, National Review, and elsewhere.