D. Iuni Iuvenalis Saturarum libri V

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University Publishing Company, 1903 - Rome - 293 pages

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Page 15 - ... omnibus hic idem, si foeda et scissa lacerna, si toga sordidula est et rupta calceus alter pelle patet, vel si consuto volnere crassum 150 atque recens linum ostendit non una cicatrix? nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se quam quod ridiculos homines facit. "exeat...
Page 12 - Dum nova canities, dum prima et recta senectus, Dum superest Lachesi, quod torqueat, et pedibus me Porto meis, nullo dextram subeunte bacillo.
Page 81 - Herculis aerumnas credat saevosque labores et venere et cenis et pluma Sardanapalli. monstro quod ipse tibi possis dare, semita certe tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.
Page 102 - Tradidit arcano quodcunque volumine Moses, Non monstrare vias,- eadem nisi sacra colenti, Quaesitum ad fontem solos deducere verpos.
Page 21 - ... appropriate on an ancient tomb, is out of place in a modern churchyard, through which no road passes. SATIRE III. HOW THE POOR LIVE AT ROME. Some remarks on this Satire, in some respects Juvenal's masterpiece. will be found in the Introduction p. xxxix. Of many translations or imitations the most famous is Samuel Johnson's ' London, a Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal,' published in May 1738, which at once brought fame, but little profit, to its author.

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