The Satires of Juvenal

SATIRE I.

...a huge Telephus? Or, with the margin of the book already full, and even on the back, Orestes A Greek hero, the subject of many tragic plays. is not yet finished? No one’s house is better known to me than the grove of Mars, and the cave near the Aeolian rocks of Vulcan References to the mythical locations often featured in tedious epic poetry.. What the winds can do; what shades Aeacus A judge of the underworld. may torment; whence another may convey the stolen gold of the fleece; how many ash-trees Monychus A centaur in Greek mythology. may hurl; the plane-trees of Fronto and the convulsed marbles clamor "Always," and the columns broken by the relentless reader. You may expect the same things from the highest and the least poet. And so, we too have withdrawn our hand from the rod, and we have given counsel to Sulla The Roman dictator., that he should sleep soundly as a private citizen. It is foolish clemency, when you meet poets everywhere, to spare paper that is destined to perish. Why, however, it should please me rather to run along that field, through which the great pupil of Aurunca Lucilius, the inventor of Roman satire. drove his horses, if there is leisure, and you admit composed reason, I will tell. When...