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A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius
A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius Author:Juvenal Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3" As with a drawn sword, as often as Lucilius ardent 165 " Raged—the hearer reddens, who has a mind frigid " With crimes; the bosom sweats with silent guilt: " Hence anger and tea... more »rs. Therefore first revolve, with thyself, l These things in thy mind, before the trumpets: the hehneted " late of a fight * Repents." I'll try what may be allowed towards those, 170 Whose ashes are covered in the Flaminian and Latin way. or ways. For the Flaminian way, see before, 1. 61, note. The Via Latina was of great extent, reaching from Rome, through many far mous cities, to the farthest part of Latium. END OF THE FIRST SATIRE. Section 4SATIftA II. ARGUMENT. textit{The Poet, in this satire, inveighs against tla. hypocrisy of the philosophers and priests of hh time—textit{the effeminacy of military officers—textit{and magistrates. W/iich corruption of manners, as well Ulti PRA Sauromatas fugcre hinc libet, et glacialem Oceanum, quoties aliquid de moribud audent Qui Curios simulant, et Bacchanalia vivunt. Indocti primum : quanquam plena omnia gypso Chrysippi iuvenias: uam perl .ctissimus horum est, 5 Si quis Aristotelem simiiom, vel Pittucon emit, Et jiibet archetypes pluteum servare Cleanthis. textit{Line 1. I coidd wish.] Libet—lit. it liketh me. textit{Sauro'matte.') A northern barbarous people: the same with the Sarmatae. Ov. Trist. ii. 198, calls them Sauromatae truces. 1—2. textit{Icy ocean.] The northern ocean, which was perpetually frozen. Lucan calls it Scythicum poutum (Phurs. 1. 1.)—Scythia bordering on its shore. Et qua bruma rigens, et nescia vcre remitti, Astringit Scythicum glaciali frigore pontum. The poet means, that he wishes to leave Rome, and banish him- a;'lf, though to the most inhospitable regions, whenever he hears such hvpocrites, as he...« less