They begin with the author explaining that he chose his medium after having seen a barber become wealthier than a partrician, and they end unfinished in mid-sentence during an account of the prerogatives of soldiers.
They begin with the author explaining that he chose his medium after having seen a barber become wealthier than a partrician, and they end unfinished in mid-sentence during an account of the prerogatives of soldiers. The first one claims that the author is motivated by a desire to pay back the many poets who have bored him, while number 2 attacks effeminate men, introducing the proverb "one rotten apple spoils a whole barrel". The sixth notoriously attacks the women of Rome, while the famous tenth holds that few human beings know what it good for them. FTP, what are these sixteen works attacking all aspects of Roman life, written by Juvenal?
They begin with the author explaining that he chose his medium after having seen a barber become wealthier than a partrician, and they end unfinished in mid-sentence during an account of the prerogatives of soldiers.
the Satires of Juvenal