Satires
A speaker choking on the Rome around him works through the city's types in sixteen hexameter poems: the client waiting on a handout, the Greek adventurer who will do anything for a dinner, the collapsing tenement, the poisoning wife, the noble house rotted down to its portraits. Later pieces cool into moral argument about what is worth praying for and how far ancestry counts. The angriest voice in Latin verse and the source of the tradition's harsher line, from Dryden and Johnson to modern invective.
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