Status Updates From The Satires

Juvenal had opinions!!!

oh virro… peius quam tu nemo facit

“Poor little household gods, / whom I supplicate with a pinch of incense or barley meal, / or a tiny garland — when while I ever lay by enough / to insure my old age against the indigent beggar’s / bed-roll and crutch?”

juvenal needs to have a looooong talk with boccaccio

“I detest / the sort who are always thumbing — and citing — some standard grammar, / whose every utterance follows the laws of syntax, / who with antiquarian zeal quote poets I’ve never heard of: / such matters are men’s concern.”

he’s kind of like fran lebowitz to me

“But in Rome we must toe the line of fashion, spending / behind our means, and often on borrowed credit. / It’s a universal failing: here we all live in pretentious / poverty.”

if conformist and regressive then why so DIVA?? tunes may change by satire vi but satire i has me SOLD

“it’s harder not to be writing satires; for who could endure / this monstrous city, however callous at heart, and swallow / his wrath?”

girl WHATEVER!!!

“Juvenal’s particular dilemma, like that of many another laudator temporis acti yearning for some mythical Golden Age, is that he is living by a set of moral and social assumptions that were obsolete before he was born.”