Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis: Citáty v angličtine (page 2)

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis je staroveký rímsky básnik. Citáty v angličtine.
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“It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.”
Haut facile emergunt quorum virtutibus opstat res angusta domi.

Juvenal kniha Satires

Haut facile emergunt quorum virtutibus opstat
res angusta domi.
III, line 164.
Variant translation: Slow rises Worth, by Poverty deprest.
As translated by Samuel Johnson
Satires, Satire III

“If your stars go against you, the fantastic size of your cock will get you precisely nowhere, however much Virro may have drooled at the spectacle of your naked charms, though love-letters come in by the dozen, imploring your favors.”

Juvenal kniha Satires

Nam si tibi sidera cessant,
nil faciet longi mensura incognita nervi,
quamvis te nudum spumanti Virro labello
viderit et blandae adsidue densaeque tabellae
sollicitent, autos gar ephelketai andra kinaidos.
IX, line 33.
Satires, Satire IX

“Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas.”

Juvenal kniha Satires

Censure pardons the raven, but is visited upon the dove.
II, line 63.
Satires, Satire II