The Satires of Juvenal

...into heaven, those whom the best way of success exalts, the lust of a rich old woman. Proculeius Mentioned here as an example of a legacy-hunter. has a little ounce, but Gillo Another legacy-hunter. has eleven ounces: everyone has his portions, according to the measure of his own crotch, the heir: let him receive his reward of his blood, and so grow pale, as one who has stepped on a snake with naked heels, or a rhetorician about to speak at the altar of Lyons A site of competitive public oratory.. Why should I relate with how great an anger my dry liver burns, when this spoiler of his own ward presses on the people with flocks of companions? And here, one condemned by an empty judgment (for what does it matter if he retains his money?)—Marius Marius Priscus, a corrupt proconsul of Africa. drinks from the eighth hour and enjoys the angry Gods: but you, victorious province, wail! Shall I not believe these things are worthy of a Venusian lamp A reference to Horace, the Roman satirist from Venusia.? Must I not agitate these subjects? But why rather would I write of the Heracleans, or the Diomedeans, or the lowing of the labyrinth, and the sea stricken by a boy, and the artificer Refers to the myths of Hercules, Diomedes, the Minotaur, Icarus, and Daedalus—all standard, overused mythological topics for epic poetry....

why should I mention

what does he care of his bank

an exile from Rome

with laws of her own

would I write a satire

in flight

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