Juvenal's Satires
Nos Moraturi
By: Charles Giuliano - Dec 08, 2016
Juvenal's Satires
Belly of the beast
Sloshing about
Decaying muck
Rot of Empire
Putrid flesh
Mordant observer
Sharp eye
Vicious tongue
Sixteen Satires
Vivid commentary
Comical compilation
All the phobes
Condensed and vile
Misanthropic
Homophobic
Xenophobic
Particularly Greeks
Egyptians reviled
Where he was banished
Under terrible Domitian
Savage to Patrician women
Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Petty bourgeois rentier
Reduced in station
Inspired creation
Rude and bitter
Dependant on patrons
Whom he reviled
Known as Juvenal
May have been
Born 55–60 AD
Perhaps died in 127
Little is known
The work survives
Stunning images
Sweating in a toga
Carnage of the games
Lawyer in chiffon
Succinct phrases
Bread and circus
Who will guard the guards themselves
The itch for writing
Bronze statue of Sejanus
Former favorite
Slaughtered by
Decadent Tiberius
Melted down for
Chamber pots
Society matron
Lathering herself
Rare emollients
Costly cosmetics
Resulting in
Is that a face, or an ulcer
The lady who
Has her slave flogged
For a misplaced curl
The arriviste
A rich Greek
Who dines alone
On a roasted boar
Brawls in brothels
Couples who cheat
Boys or gladiators
Eunuchs preferred
Pumiced cheeks
Delicious diversion
Guilty pleasure
Not for the squeamish
Mirror help up
Reflecting our image
Millenials amuck
Ambitious greed
Self absorbed
Decadent luxuries
PC entitlements
Hooking up
Lapsing into
Ninth circle
Our hell as Earth
Not just other people
Read and weep
Gasping for breath
On what was
Pristine universe
Grown so perverse
Nos morituri
Let the games begin