Had Persius lived after instead of before Juvenal we might have imagined that he had taken for the theme the noble lines in his eighth Satire, "Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se Crimen habet quanto Major qui peccat habetur.
Alitur vitium vivitque tegendo=--Evil is nourished 50 and grows by concealment.
In vitium ducit culpæ fuga=--In flying from one vice we are sometimes led into another.
Juvenile vitium regere non posse impetum=--It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
Utrumque vitium est, et omnibus credere et nulli=--It is equally an error to confide in all and in none.
Omne in præcipiti vitium stetit=--Every vice ever stands on the brink of a precipice.
Amici vitium ni feras, prodis tuum=--Unless you bear with the faults of a friend, you betray your own.
Frustra vitium vitaveris illud, / Si te alio pravus detorseris=--In vain do you avoid one fault if you perversely turn aside into another.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vitium" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
