Juvenal
Juvenal
Decimus Iūnius Iuvenālis , known in English as Juvenal /ˈdʒuːvənəl/, was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD, author of the Satires. The details of the author's life are unclear, although references within his text to known persons of the late 1st and early 2nd centuries AD fix his terminus post quem...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
nemo depravity depraved
Nobody ever became depraved all at once. [Lat., Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.]
mother giving-up law
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
laying-down scripture love-one-another
To lay down one's life for the truth.
heirs inheritance enjoy
A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.
peace path virtue
One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.
sweet smell wealth
The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.
character wicked
No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.
men prison guilty
By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.
war luxury long
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
order judgement done
I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.
arrows dowry
The arrows are from her dowry.
missing vines widowed
Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.
crowns bears different
Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. [Lat., Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato; Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hic diadema.]
appearance shows
Trust not to outward show. [Lat., Fronti nulla fides.]