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
punishment evil guilt
Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience. [Lat., Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi Displicet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se Judice nemo nocens absolvitur.]
bird black earth rare
A rare bird on earth, and very like a black swan.
disease flocks whole
From the disease of one the whole flock perishes.
poverty traveler robbers
The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]
vices worst leap
No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap
faults bears
Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?
snakes fellowship today
Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
thieves faces pockets
The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.
inspirational eye sweat
For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.
example depraved
We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.
people poverty cloaks
Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak
growth care know-thyself
Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.
kindness lying dishonesty
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
men unhappy woe
Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.