SATYRA SECVNDA. Second Satire

I would like to flee beyond the Sauromatae a nomadic tribe in the far northeast, and the icy
Ocean, whenever those who pretend to be Curii referring to Manius Curius Dentatus, a symbol of ancient Roman frugality but live like Bacchants dare to talk about morality.
They are unlearned at first, though you may find every corner filled
with plaster casts of Chrysippus; for the most perfect among them
is he who buys a likeness of Aristotle or Pittacus,
and orders his shelves to keep the original works of Cleanthes.
There is no faith in a forehead; for what neighborhood does not abound
with somber perverts? You chastise shameful acts, when you yourself are
the most notorious pit of depravity among the Socratics a sarcastic reference to men who profess philosophical study.
Your bristly limbs indeed, and the hard hairs on your arms,
promise a fierce spirit, but with a smooth anus original: podice leui
your swollen piles original: mariscae; medicinal figs, a common term for hemorrhoids are lanced while the doctor laughs.
Their speech is rare, and they have a great desire to remain silent,
and their hair is shorter than their eyebrows. More truthful, therefore,
and more honest is Peribonius. I attribute his state to the fates,
for he confesses his illness by his expression and his gait.
The simplicity of these men is pitiable; for them, their very madness
grants forgiveness. But worse are those who attack such things with words,
and having spoken of virtue, they twitch their buttocks. Shall I fear you, you who practice sodomy, Sextus?
"What am I worse than you?" says Varillus.
A faint doodle or hand-shaped mark pointing to the text. Let the straight mock the bow-legged, the white the Ethiopian.
Who could tolerate the Gracchi complaining about sedition?
Who would not mix heaven with earth, and sea with sky, a proverbial expression for total chaos
if a thief should dislike a fence? A murderer, Milo?
Should Clodius accuse adulterers? Catilina, Cethegus?
If the three disciples of Sulla should speak against his proscription lists.
What was the adulterer recently like, stained by the tragic