Saturae
Juvenal
Juvenal. Juvenal and Persius. Ramsay, G. G., editor. London, New York: William Heinemann, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1918.
- sanguine causidici maduerunt rostra pusilli.
- o fortunatam natam me consule Romam:[*](This line is (apparently) taken from the poem (De suo Consulatu) which Cicero wrote to glorify the events of his Consulship To the many who are not gifted with the divine faculty of poesy it may be a consolation to know that a writer of the most splendid prose could be guilty of such a rubbishy line as that here quoted.)
- Antoni gladios potuit contemnere, si sic
- omnia dixisset, videnda poemata malo
- quam te, conspicuae divina Philippica famae,
- volvens a prima quae proxima, saevus et illum
- exitus eripuit, quem mirabantur Athenae
- torrentem et pleni moderantem frena theatri.
- dis ille adversis genitus fatoque sinistro,
- quem pater ardentis massae fuligine lippus
- a carbone et forcipibus gladiosque paranti
- incude et luteo Vulcano ad rhetora misit.
- Bellorum exuviae, truncis adfixa tropaeis
- lorica et fracta de casside buccula pendens
- et curtum temone iugum victaeque triremis
- aplustre et summo tristis captivus in arcu
- humanis maiora bonis creduntur. ad hoc se
- Romanus Graiusque et barbarus induperator
- erexit, causas discriminis atque laboris
- inde habuit; tanto maior famae sitis est quam