Nam si tibi sidera cessant, nil faciet longi mensura incogn… - Juvenal

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Nam si tibi sidera cessant, nil faciet longi mensura incognita nervi, quamvis te nudum spumanti Virro labello viderit et blandae adsidue densaeque tabellae sollicitent, autos gar ephelketai andra kinaidos.

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Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (c. 55 – c. 140), anglicized as Juvenal, was a Roman satiric poet.

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Native Name: Decimus Iunius Iuuenalis

Alternative Names: Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis • Decimus Junius Juvenalis

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But just where will men draw the limit, after they see a high-born lawyer dress in transparent chiffon, to public amazement, to prosecute loose-living women? If they’re whores, bring in a guilty verdict: yet even a proven whore wouldn’t dare to rig herself out like that.

Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.

Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred,
The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.

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