The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age
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II.
able by discoursing upon the subject, that the guests fled from the good things before them, velnt illis Canidia adflasset peior serpentibus Afris.
Among other points of interest in this piece we see by the living examples of Porcius and Nomentanus on the one hand, and Vibidius and Balatro on the other, the difference between the obsequious parasite, such as he appears in Greek Comedy, and the audacious ' scurra ' who plays so large a part in Roman satire.
The most trenchant of all the Sati...res is the fifth. The weapon employed is not the genial irony of the fourth, but bitter sarcasm, ' rigidi censura cachinni. ' It is not so much moral indignation, as intellectual scorn, which is expressed for a type of character, known to all times, but especially common in Rome under the Empire the fortune-hunter, or ' captator, ' who rose to wealth by obsequious attention and base services to rich and childless old men and widows. Folly, vanity and meanness are the objects of his other Satires, and the tone in which these subjects are treated is that of serious remonstrance, good-humoured irony, or con- temptuous ridicule.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
II.
able by discoursing upon the subject, that the guests fled from the good things before them, velnt illis Canidia adflasset peior serpentibus Afris.
Among other points of interest in this piece we see by the living examples of Porcius and Nomentanus on the one hand, and Vibidius and Balatro on the other, the difference between the obsequious parasite, such as he appears in Greek Comedy, and the audacious ' scurra ' who plays so large a part in Roman satire.
The most trenchant of all the Sati...res is the fifth. The weapon employed is not the genial irony of the fourth, but bitter sarcasm, ' rigidi censura cachinni. ' It is not so much moral indignation, as intellectual scorn, which is expressed for a type of character, known to all times, but especially common in Rome under the Empire the fortune-hunter, or ' captator, ' who rose to wealth by obsequious attention and base services to rich and childless old men and widows. Folly, vanity and meanness are the objects of his other Satires, and the tone in which these subjects are treated is that of serious remonstrance, good-humoured irony, or con- temptuous ridicule.
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