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sophia
is on page 121 of 252
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.”
— Feb 18, 2026 10:01AM
“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.”
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sophia
is on page 143 of 252
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?”
— Feb 19, 2026 11:48AM
“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?”
sophia
is on page 90 of 252
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.”
— Feb 17, 2026 11:41AM
“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.”
sophia
is on page 75 of 252
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?”
— Feb 16, 2026 08:20PM
“it’s harder not to be writing satires; for who could endure / this monstrous city, however callous at heart, and swallow / his wrath?”
sophia
is on page 50 of 252
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.”
— Feb 15, 2026 07:59PM
“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.”
