Juvenal
Juvenal
Decimus Iūnius Iuvenālis , known in English as Juvenal /ˈdʒuːvənəl/, was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD, author of the Satires. The details of the author's life are unclear, although references within his text to known persons of the late 1st and early 2nd centuries AD fix his terminus post quem...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
arrows dowry
The arrows are from her dowry.
block abuse
The abuse of cabmen in a block.
want rich get-rich
He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.
guilt crime
He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.
views public-opinion currents
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]
want transportation ifs
Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody.
tyrants natural natural-death
Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.
missing vines widowed
Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.
secret executioners shaking
Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.
ravens wicked innocent
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]
age incessant old-age
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
kind beast spots
Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.
death men body
Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.
prayer book men
The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book. [Lat., Quicquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli.]