The Satires of Juvenal

...a tender wife can marry a eunuch: Mævia A woman who competed in the arena. can pierce a Tuscan boar, and hold hunting-spears with a naked breast: when one person can challenge all the patricians with his riches, the one whose beard—troublesome to me as a youth—was being clipped: when a part of the Nilian commonalty, when a slave from Canopus, Crispinus A wealthy and despised Egyptian-born courtier., with his shoulder recalling his Tyrian cloaks, can ventilate his summer gold on sweating fingers, and cannot bear the weight of a larger gem: it is difficult not to write satire. For who is so enduring of this iniquitous city, so hardened, that he can contain himself? When the new litter of the lawyer Matho A greedy, untalented lawyer. comes, full of himself; and after him, the great accuser of a friend, and soon about to seize what remains of the devoured nobility: whom Massa A corrupt official. fears; whom Carus A notorious informer. soothes with a gift; and Thymele A mime actress. sent privately to Latinus A famous comic actor.. When they can remove you, who merit wills by nights...

iniquitous

a lawyer

all afraid of him