More famous are the third, in which a friend of the author leaves for Cumae, and the tenth, which Samuel Johnson adapted as The Vanity of Human Wishes.  
The eighth of them begins by asking Ponticus about the value of family trees, and concludes that it would be fine to have Thersites for a father so long as one resembles Achilles oneself.  The first of them expresses the author's boredom at poetry readings, such as those given by Cordus, while the second expresses a wish to get away from hypocritical talk of morality that serves as a front for sexual perversity.  While speaking of a special privilege accorded to soldiers, the sixteenth and last breaks off abruptly.  More famous are the third, in which a friend of the author leaves for Cumae, and the tenth, which Samuel Johnson adapted as The Vanity of Human Wishes.  FTP, name this collection of acerbic poems by the Roman poet Juvenal.
The eighth of them begins by asking Ponticus about the value of family trees, and concludes that it would be fine to have Thersites for a father so long as one resembles Achilles oneself.  
the Satires of Juvenal