Sunday, July 17, 2022
It's Hard
Juvenal 1.30 (tr. G.G. Ramsay):
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It is hard not to write satire.Id. 1.79:
difficile est saturam non scribere.
Though nature say me nay, indignation will prompt my verse.Id. 1.87:
si natura negat, facit indignatio versum.
For when was Vice more rampant?Id. 1.147-149:
et quando uberior vitiorum copia?
To these ways of ours Posterity will have nothing to add; our grandchildren will do the same things, and desire the same things, that we do. All vice is at its acme.
nil erit ulterius, quod nostris moribus addat
posteritas: eadem facient cupientque minores.
omne in praecipiti vitium stetit.
