Juvenal
Juvenal (Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis), who lived in the years 60-127 CE. Roman satirical poet.
- “Greatest deference is owed to the child”
- latin: [Maxima debetur puero reverentia]
- source: Juvenal, Satires, XIV.47
- “The censor forgives the crows and harasses the doves”
- latin: [Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas]
- source: Juvenal, Satires, II, 63
- “Bread and circuses”
- latin: [Panem et circenses]
- source: Juvenal, Satires, 10.77–81
- “There’s no hope of harmony if your mother-in-law is alive”
- latin: [Desperanda tibi salva Concordia socru]
- source: Juvenal, Satires, VI, 232
- “The love of money increases as wealth itself increases”
- latin: [Crescit amor nummi, quantum ipsa pecunia crescit]
- source: Juvenal, Satires, 14.139
- “I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement”
- latin: [Hoc volo, sic iubeo; sit pro ratione voluntas]
- description: mocking words spoken by a wife to a husband who refuses to crucify an innocent slave.
- source: Juvenal, Satires, 6, l. 223
- “They pretend to be virtuous and live in the festival of Bacchus”
- latin: [Curias simulant, Bacchanalia vivunt]
- source: Juvenal, Satires, 2, 1-35, 149-170
- “A healthy mind in a healthy body”
- latin: [Mens sana in corpore sano]
- source: Juvenal, Satires, 10.356
