The third of these poems laments that the Orontes has flowed into the Tiber, and is spoken by Umbricus.
In the fourth of these poems, a state council discusses how to cook an enormous turbot for an emperor. The second to last of them describes a fight between two Egyptian towns that results in cannibalism. The narrator of the ninth of them responds to the complaints of the male prostitute Naevolus by assuring him that he will always find clients. The third of these poems laments that the Orontes has flowed into the Tiber, and is spoken by Umbricus. The sixth one compares a good woman to a "rara avis," or "rare bird," and attacks the deceitfulness of women. The tenth advises that men should pray for "mens sana in corpore sano," often translated as "a sound mind in a sound body," and claims that politicians win votes with "bread and circuses." For 10 points, name these sixteen social commentaries attacking the vices of Rome under Domitian, written by Juvenal.
In the fourth of these poems, a state council discusses how to cook an enormous turbot for an emperor.
Satires