The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

10.60 Juvenal A.D. c.60-c.130
Difficile est saturam non scribere.
It’s hard not to write satire.
‘Satires’ no. 1, l. 30
Probitas laudatur et alget.
Honesty is praised and left to shiver.
‘Satires’ no. 1, l. 74 (translation by G. G. Ramsay)
Si natura negat, facit indignatio versum.
Even if nature says no, indignation makes me write verse.
‘Satires’ no. 1, l. 79
Quidquid agunt homines, votum timor ira voluptas
Gaudia discursus nostri farrago libelli est.
Everything mankind does, their hope, fear, rage, pleasure, joys, business, are the hotch-potch
of my little book.
‘Satires’ no. 1, l. 85
Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditione querentes?
Who would put up with the Gracchi complaining about subversion?
‘Satires’ no. 2, l. 24
Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.
No one ever suddenly became depraved.
‘Satires’ no. 2, l. 83
Iam pridem Syrus in Tiberim defluxit Orontes
Et linguam et mores.
The Syrian Orontes has now for long been pouring into the Tiber, with its own language and
ways of behaving.
‘Satires’ no. 3, l. 62
Grammaticus, rhetor, geometres, pictor, aliptes,
Augur, schoenobates, medicus, magus, omnia novit
Graeculus esuriens: in caelum iusseris ibit.
Scholar, public speaker, geometrician, painter, physical training instructor, diviner of the
future, rope-dancer, doctor, magician, the hungry little Greek can do everything: send him to—
heaven (and he’ll go there).
‘Satires’ no. 3, l. 76
Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se
Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.
The misfortunes of poverty carry with them nothing harder to bear than that it exposes men to
ridicule.
‘Satires’ no. 3, l. 152