SATIRE I. JUVENAL. v. 105—122.

They would argue the point, even if I were to deny it: but five houses Likely referring to the income generated by property holdings. bring in four hundred thousand sesterces A significant fortune in Rome.. What advantage does the purple The purple-bordered toga, signifying high rank. hold, if Corvinus keeps his hired sheep in the Laurentine fields? I possess more than Pallas and the Licini Famous examples of immense, newly acquired wealth.; therefore, let the Tribunes wait. Let riches prevail; let no one yield to sacred honor, even if he came to this city only recently, with his feet still white Referring to the chalk marks on the feet of imported slaves sold in the market.. Since, among us, the most sacred Majesty of wealth reigns—although, O baneful Money, you do not yet dwell in a temple, and we have not erected altars to you, as we do to Peace, Faith, Victory, Virtue, and Concord, who chatters when her nest is visited Referring to the stork, a symbol of domestic harmony..

But when the highest official computes the year's end—what the "sportula" The small gift or allowance given to clients. brings in, and how much it adds to his accounts—what will the attendants do, for whom this provides a gown, a shoe, and bread, and fire at home? A dense crowd of a hundred men in litters seeks it, and the sick or pregnant wife follows the husband, or is led about. One man asks for his absent wife, showing a closed sedan chair A portable, enclosed seat for transport. as if she were inside, with a well-practiced cunning.