Juvenal
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Yes, — the home of Socrates and of Demosthenes has now fallen so low that even the coarsest Roman may well cast his stone at her, as at the great nurse and producer of all that is most vile on earth. A consummate master in all the arts which may pander to this luxurious age, the Greek knows but too well how to make himself acceptable, or even necessary, to his patron : — " A flattering, cringing, treacherous, artful race, Of torrent tongue and never-blushing face, MORALS AT ROME. 75 A Protean t...ribe one knows not what to call, Which shifts to every form, and shines in all, — Grammarian, painter, augur, rhetorician, Rope-dancer, conjurer, fiddler, and physician ; All trades his own your hungry Greekling counts, And bid him mount the sky, the sky he mounts. " * — Sat. Iii. 75.
The drift of this passage will be familiar to many of our readers, from Dryden's character of the Earl of Shaftesbury in his " Absalom and Achitophel. " to which it bears a strange similarity. Indeed, we can hardly doubt that those lines were written by him with Juvenal's description of the Greek ringing in his ears : — " Some of their chiefs were princes of the land ; In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ; A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was everything by starts, and nothing long ; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Yes, — the home of Socrates and of Demosthenes has now fallen so low that even the coarsest Roman may well cast his stone at her, as at the great nurse and producer of all that is most vile on earth. A consummate master in all the arts which may pander to this luxurious age, the Greek knows but too well how to make himself acceptable, or even necessary, to his patron : — " A flattering, cringing, treacherous, artful race, Of torrent tongue and never-blushing face, MORALS AT ROME. 75 A Protean t...ribe one knows not what to call, Which shifts to every form, and shines in all, — Grammarian, painter, augur, rhetorician, Rope-dancer, conjurer, fiddler, and physician ; All trades his own your hungry Greekling counts, And bid him mount the sky, the sky he mounts. " * — Sat. Iii. 75.
The drift of this passage will be familiar to many of our readers, from Dryden's character of the Earl of Shaftesbury in his " Absalom and Achitophel. " to which it bears a strange similarity. Indeed, we can hardly doubt that those lines were written by him with Juvenal's description of the Greek ringing in his ears : — " Some of their chiefs were princes of the land ; In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ; A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was everything by starts, and nothing long ; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.
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