Wearing these rags I’d rather go off to visit Thrace, Persia, or Britain — any place — than go home in this state, with neither grain nor fruit nor meat, nor wine to drink, nor any wool or linen for my family.
Set mallem visere Tracam hos gestans pannos aut Persas sive Britannos, quam miser ire domum, cui nec seges est neque pomum nec caro nec vinum nec lana meis neque linum.