Decimus Junius Juvenalis [Juvenal]
1st-2nd c. AD
Trans RMBullard
Latin (Imperial Era)
D. IVNI IVVENALIS SATVRA II
Vltra Sauromatas fugere hinc libet
[I want to escape from here to the lands beyond the Sarmatians,]
et glacialem
Oceanum,
[and the icy Ocean,]
quotiens aliquid de moribus audent
[every time they dare to say anything about our traditions]
qui Curios simulant et Bacchanalia uiuunt.
[that is, men who pretend to be the Curii, but live out Bacchanalias.]
indocti primum, quamquam plena omnia gypso
Chrysippi inuenias;
[First of all, they are dummies, although you might all kinds of things marked with Chrysippus' chalk;]
nam perfectissimus horum, 5
[you see, he's the most accomplished of these kinds of fellows,]
si quis Aristotelen similem uel Pittacon emit
[if a guy buys Aristotle, or Pittacus,]
et iubet archet pluteum seruare Cleanthas
[and orders one to keep a Cleanthes intact on the shelf]
.
frontis nulla fides;
[There's no point believing a man's face;]
quis enim non uicus abundat
tristibus obscenis?
[I mean, what street corner does overflow with pitiful obscenities?]
castigas turpia, cum sis
inter Socraticos notissima fossa cinaedos? 10
[And can you criticize sick acts, when you're the most notorious ass-crack among those Socratic degenerates?]
