Juvenal Satires I- Unbearable stuff (1-18)

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Semper ego auditor tantum?
Must I be a listener forever?
1 of 10
numquamne reponam vexatus totiens rauci Theseide Cordi?
Never reply, Tortured so often by throaty Cordus’s Theseus?
2 of 10
inpune ergo mihi recitaverit ille togatas, hic elegos?
Must I let this fellow recite his Roman comedies, Unpunished, and that one his elegies?
3 of 10
inpune diem consumpserit ingens Telephus aut summi plena iam margine libri scriptus et in tergo necdum finitus Orestes?
Unpunished, Consuming my whole day on some endless Telephus, Or unfinished Orestes,the cover full and the margins?
4 of 10
nota magis nulli domus est sua quam mihi lucus Martis et Aeoliis vicinum rupibus antrum Vulcani.
Aman knows his own house less well than I know The grove of Mars or that cave of Vulcan’s right by The Aeolian cliffs;
5 of 10
Quid agant venti, quas torqueat umbras Aeacus, unde alius furtivae devehat aurum pelliculae, quantas iaculetur Monychus ornos,
what the winds do, which shade Aeacus torments, where he’s from, he with the golden Stolen fleece, how big that ash tree Monychus hurled –
6 of 10
Frontonis platani convulsaque marmora clamant semper et adsiduo ruptae lectore columnae:
Fronto’s plane-trees, cracked marble, and columns Fractured by non-stop readings, ring with this stuff.
7 of 10
expectes eadem a summo minimoque poeta,
Expect the same, then, from this best and worst of poets.
8 of 10
et nos ergo manum ferulae subduximus, et nos consilium dedimus Sullae, privatus ut altum dormiret;
I too have snatched my hand out of reach of the cane, I too have given old Sulla ‘good advice’: get lost, enjoy A good rest.
9 of 10
stulta est clementia, cum tot ubique vatibus occurras, periturae parcere chartae.
It’s false mercy, when you trip over poets Everywhere, to spare the paper they’re all ready to waste.
10 of 10

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numquamne reponam vexatus totiens rauci Theseide Cordi?

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Never reply, Tortured so often by throaty Cordus’s Theseus?

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inpune ergo mihi recitaverit ille togatas, hic elegos?

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inpune diem consumpserit ingens Telephus aut summi plena iam margine libri scriptus et in tergo necdum finitus Orestes?

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nota magis nulli domus est sua quam mihi lucus Martis et Aeoliis vicinum rupibus antrum Vulcani.

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