Juvenal
Overview
The Satires are a collection of satirical
Satire
Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement...

 poems by the Latin author Juvenal
Juvenal
The Satires are a collection of satirical poems by the Latin author Juvenal written in the late 1st and early 2nd centuries AD.Juvenal is credited with sixteen known poems divided among five books; all are in the Roman genre of satire, which, at its most basic in the time of the author, comprised a...

 written in the late 1st and early 2nd centuries AD.

Juvenal is credited with sixteen known poems divided among five books
Scroll
A scroll is a roll of parchment, papyrus, or paper, which has been drawn or written upon.Scroll may also refer to:*Scroll , the decoratively curved end of the pegbox of string instruments such as violins...

; all are in the Roman genre of satire
Satire
Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement...

, which, at its most basic in the time of the author, comprised a wide-ranging discussion of society and social mores
Mores
Mores, in sociology, are any given society's particular norms, virtues, or values. The word mores is a plurale tantum term borrowed from Latin, which has been used in the English language since the 1890s....

in dactylic hexameter
Dactylic hexameter
Dactylic hexameter is a form of meter in poetry or a rhythmic scheme. It is traditionally associated with the quantitative meter of classical epic poetry in both Greek and Latin, and was consequently considered to be the Grand Style of classical poetry...

. These five books were discrete works, and there is no reason to assume that they were published at the same time or that they are identical in theme or in approach.
Quotations

Probitas laudatur et alget

Honesty is praised and starves.

No one shall be a thief by my co-operation.

III, line 46.

Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas.

Censure pardons the raven, but is visited upon the dove.

Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.

No man ever became extremely wicked all at once.

Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se, quam quod ridiculos homines facit.

Bitter poverty has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

Haut facile emergunt quorum virtutibus opstat res angusta domi.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Vitam impendere vero.

Dedicate one’s life to truth.

Hic vivimus ambitiosa paupertate omnes.

We all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Nunc patimur longae pacis mala, saevior armisluxuria incubuit victumque ulciscitur orbem.

We are now suffering the evils of a long peace. Luxury, more deadly than war, broods over the city, and avenges a conquered world.

 
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