Juvenal, Juvenal and Persius — Satire 2 (1918)
“ Would you be more aghast, would you deem it a greater portent, if a woman gave birth to a calf, or an ox to a lamb? The man who is now arraying himself in the flounces and train and veil of a bride once carried the quivering shields [21] of Mars by the sacred thongs and sweated under the sacred burden! ”
Juvenal, Juvenal and Persius — Satire 2 (1918)
“ Men's faces are not to be trusted; does not every street abound in gloomy-visaged debauchees? And do you rebuke foul practices, when you are yourself the most notorious of the Socratic reprobates? A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul; but the doctor grins when he cuts into the growths on your sleek buttocks. Men of your kidney talk little; they glory in taciturnity, and cut their hair shorter than their eyebrows. ”
Juvenal, Juvenal and Persius — Satire 2 (1918)
“ Are we learned in the Law? Do your court-houses ever ring with our bawling? Some few of us are wrestlers; some of us eat meat-rations; you men spin wool and bring back your tale of work in baskets when it is done ”
