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52 Cards in this Set
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Juvenal Satire 1
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On His Compulsion towards This Form of Writing
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Juvenal Satire 3
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Against The City of Rome
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Juvenal Satire 10
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On the Vanity of Human Wishes
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What human has such iron control himself in this city of evil as to hold his tongue, when he sees, for example, the lawyer Matho
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Satire 1, Juvenal, On His Compulsion towards This Form of Writing
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All about Diomed's horses, Hercules, and the Minotaurs Bellow, ICarus drowned in the sea, and Daedalus flying above him?Why should I write about these when a husband, both a cuckhold and a pimp, ...
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Satire 1, Juvenal, On His Compulsion towards This Form of Writing
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Who cares about Mucius' forgiveness? ..you soon are a torch in a tunic. ..poisoned three uncles?
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Satire 1, Juvenal, On His Compulsion towards This Form of Writing
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NO one gets hurt if you write about Achilles...but when Lucilius roars adn draws hsi sword in anger, The listeners mind, col dwith its guilty knowledge reddens and sweats. youd best think it over.
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Satire 1, Juvenal, On His Compulsion towards This Form of Writing
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We'd be better off there than afraid as we are here of fires, roofs caving in
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Satire 3 , Juvenal, Against the City of Rome
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That once holy grave now are let out to the jew...every tree has to pay rent, we go to Egeria's vale, turf to the curve fo the pool,not this unnatural marble!
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Satire 3, Juvenal, Against the City of Rome
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I can't stand the greekized roman, what portion of our dregs come from Achaia alone? into the tiber pours the silt, the mud of orontes, bringing its babble and brawl.
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Satire 3, Juvenal, Against the City of Rome
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dregs
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undesirables
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orontes
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river
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Egeria's vale
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vale of water nymph who was married to numa, and was his counselor
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Mucius
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had a maimed right hand, attempted to kill Porsenna, i am as ready to die as i am to kill.
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diomed's horses
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4 man-eating horses
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what poor man is an heir, or can hope to be? men do not easily rise whose poverty hinders their merit.
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Satire 3, Juvenal, Against the City of Rome
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Furnaces blast and anvils groan with the chains we are forging: what other use have we for iron and steel? There is danger we will have little left for hoes and mattocks and ploughshares.
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Satire 3, Juvenal, Against the City of Rome
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my man with the whip is impatient. So long! Don't forget me! Whenever you come to Aquino, send for me. I promise to listen if your satirical verse esteems me worthy the honor.
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Satire 3, Juvenal, Against the City of Rome
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Even more have been choked off by the money they hoarded, by the estates whose expanse exceed the normal condition. Longinus lost his home, and Seneca, too.
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Satire 10, Juvenal, On The Vanity of Human Wishes
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Seneca
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got too wealthy, nero had him killed
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Praise, therefore, each of the sages, the one who laughed and the one who cried.
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Satire 10, Juvenal, On The Vanity of Human Wishes
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The one who laughed
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Democritus
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the one who cried
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Heraclitus
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Sejanus gets teh hook, everybody is glad. "believe me, i could never stand him, what a puss he had! but what were the charges against him?"
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Satire 10, Juvenal, On The Vanity of Human Wishes
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Sejanus
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roman commander who got too powerful under tiberius, Tiberius from capri saw he was getting too powerful, sent letters to senate praising and denouncing Sejanus. Also send letters interchangeably saying he was sick and then he was returning, people lost fate in his administration and in Sejanus, so then Tiberius/senate denounced Sejanus and had him killed.
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What will she ever refuse an Oppia or a Catulla, given a good wet lay? Between their legs is their conscience. Go ask Bellorophon, Go ask Hippolytus. Virtue did them no good at all with Stheneboea and Phaedra.
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Satire 10, Juvenal, On The Vanity of Human Wishes
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Bellorophon
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was very much liked by stheneboea but he was repulsed by her. she told her husband he was making advances and had tried to rape her. therefore he got sent on a deadly military mission by her husband. he later returend and punished her.
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Hippolytus
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denied phaedra's advances and was killed by perseus.
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Messalina's eyes have doomed him to bitter destruction. She has been sitting there with the bridal veil on her shoulders while the bridal bed is spread in the public gardens. do you think these are secret rites, known only to initimate cronies? the husband will be the last to suspect it.
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Satire 10, Juvenal, On The Vanity of Human Wishes
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Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body. unafraid of death but reconciled to it. free from hate an ddesire. preferring hercules troubls and efforts to cushions and loves and feasts of Sardanapallus. I show you what you can give to yourself: only through virtue lies the road lies a road to a life that is blessed and tranquil.
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Satire 10, Juvenal, On The Vanity of Human Wishes
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healthy mind in a healthy body
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mens sana in corpore sano
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Lucilius
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one of the first satirists
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Hylas
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was Hercules water pitcher, nymphs pulled him into the spring, Apollonius of Rhodes
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difficult not to write a satire
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Difficile est saturam non scribere
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The Way downward is easy from Avernus. black dis's dooe stands open night and day. but to retrace your steps to heaven's air, there is the trouble; there is the toil.
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Book VI, Aeneid .
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how faint these lives were - empty images hovering bodiless - he had attacked and cut his way through phantoms, empty air.
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Book VI, Aeneid .
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I left your land against my will, my queen. the gods commands drove me to do their will.
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Book VI, Aeneid .
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He tried three times to throw his arms around his father's neck, but three times the shade untouched slipped through his hands.
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Book VI, Aeneid .
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as bees in meadows..
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Book VI, Aeneid .
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Not all the scourges of life pass from the poor souls, not all distress of life.... the disciple of punishments and pay penance for old sins.
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Book VI, Aeneid . not all sins go away will be reincarnated.
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You are the only soul who shall restore our state by waiting out the enemy.
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Book VI, Aeneid . comparison of romans and greeks.
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Through this one by the ghosts to the upper world. Anchises now, his last instructions given, took Son adn sybil there and let them go by the ivory gate.
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Book VI, Aeneid .
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I cannot bear to watch this duel, this pact. if you dare help your brother at more close quarters, do it, and well done. .. this is no time for tears.
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juno to juturna. Book XII, Aeneid .
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If the day is ours, I shall not make Italians underlings.
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Aeneis. Book XII, Aeneid .
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picked a stalk of dittany from Cretan Ida...dipped the leaves to imbue a shining bowl of tiber water.
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venus healing aeneas. Book XII, Aeneid .
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Learn fortitude and toil from me, my son, ache of true toil.
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Aeneas to Ascanius. Book XII, Aeneid .
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Her prince had been destroyed in the melee. Her mind riven by the thunderclap, she cried that she had been the cause, the source of evil,and many such laments in her sad frenzy.
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Queen Amata kills herself thinking turnur, her favorite man, is dead and the trojans have won. Book XII, Aeneid .
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Heaven has grown cold, shades of the underwold, be friendly to me.
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Turnus before facing battle. Book XII, Aeneid .
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ah,sister, see fate overpowers us. we must follow where the gods call, or implacable fortune follows.
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Turnus to Juturna. Book XII, Aeneid .
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Let Latium be. talks of dress and style of trojans and italians.
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Juno to Jupiter when she realizes she has lost. Book XII, Aeneid .
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Down she flew, just like an arrow driven through a cloud, armed with gall.
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jupiter sends omen of turnus's death. Book XII, Aeneid .
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beating her wings against his shield.
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death bird comes to turnus. Book XII, Aeneid .
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