Satyricon 1

Lucy Yang / Satyricon
  • Created on 2025-03-15 21:33:04
  • Modified on 2025-03-15 23:35:12
  • Translated by Loeb; Lucy Yang
  • Aligned by Lucy Yang
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" Num alio genere Furiarum declamatores inquietantur , qui clamant : ' Haec vulnera pro libertate publica excepi ; hunc oculum pro vobis impendi : date mihi ducem , qui me ducat ad liberos meos , nam succisi poplites membra non sustinent ' ? Haec ipsa tolerabilia essent , si ad eloquentiam ituris viam facerent . Nunc et rerum tumore et sententiarum vanissimo strepitu hoc tantum proficiunt ut , cum in forum venerint , putent se in alium orbem terrarum delatos . Et ideo ego adulescentulos existimo in scholis stultissimos fieri , quia nihil ex his , quae in usu habemus , aut audiunt aut vident , sed piratas cum catenis in litore stantes , sed tyrannos edicta scribentes quibus imperent filiis ut patrum suorum capita praecidant , sed responsa in pestilentiam data , ut virgines tres aut plures immolentur , sed mellitos verborum globulos , et omnia dicta factaque quasi papavere et sesamo sparsa .
" Are our teachers of rhetoric tormented by another pack of Furies when they shout out : ‘These wounds I got fighting for our country’s liberty , this eye I sacrificed for you . Give me someone to guide me to my children , for my knees have been hamstrung and cannot bear the weight of my body . Even such statements might have been tolerable , if they had cleared a path for those seeking eloquence . In reality the only achievement of the inflated subject matter and of the absolutely empty sounds of the maxims is that when the young speakers enter court , they think they have been conveyed into another world . This is why I believe that our young boys are converted into total fools in schools of rhetoric , because they hear and see nothing used in everyday life but only topics like pirates with chains standing on the beach , like tyrants writing edicts ordering sons to decapitate their own fathers , like oracular responses in time of plague recommending that three or more virgins be sacrificed , like honeyed clusters of expressions , and all words and actions , as it were , sprinkled with poppy seed and sesame .




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