SATIRA XVI. Quis numerare queat felicis praemia, Galle, Commoda tractemus primum communia: quorum 2 Nam] "Lucky soldiers get on very well; for, in fact, with good fortune, I should not mind serving myself. If the camp is lucky in itself, may I be taken in as a shy recruit, and find luck there; luck, I say, for fate can do more for a man in the army than an introduction to Mars from his mistress or his mother." 6 Samia] Where Polycrates, to keep the people low, had built her the largest temple known to Herodotus. 5 ΤΟ dius vi oppressam civitatem teneret;" all his force had this purpose of preventing. 9 dissimulet] He is afraid to I have it known that he has been in a brawl, however onesided, with a soldier. 12] He has lost one eye completely, he has one left to be sure, but the doctor cannot promise to save it. 13 datur] If you go to the praetor, he assigns a centurion as 'judex,' to keep the custom of Camillus (who established a standing army, so that the soldiers could not attend to their suits in the winter). Legibus antiquis castrorum et more Camilli Et procul a signis. Justissima Centurionum Quum duo crura habeas, offendere tot caligas, tot 17 Justissima, sq.] The words of the imaginary litigant, Well, the centurion has a right to judge the soldier, and he is sure to judge him justly," &c. 21 curabilis] Such as need a remedy, perhaps more generally 'anxious," an anxious business.' 24 caligas] The boots of the rank and file, who are certain to take the part of their comrade even if the centurions do not; the latter wear the calceus, though it is presumably of the kind known as Bardaicus, which was adopted from the Bardaei, a people of Illyria. 25 quis-urbe] Juvenal anticipates the excuse that the civilian's friends are sure to make; though the excuse is transparent, it is not unmeaning: the praetorian camp 15 20 25 30 was a considerable distance from the former, and most of the pleasantest and busiest parts of Rome. 26] Here Juvenal suggests their real motive for putting forward the above excuse. 31] Barbers are said to have been introduced from Sicily, B.C. 300. The date was attested by public documents at Ardea (Varro, R. R. ii. 11, § 10). 33 paganum] "A civilian." Antonius Primus (Tac. Hist. iii. 24). taunts his soldiers by this word, as Caesar subdued a mutiny by calling his soldiers Quirites. The distinction is worth noticing. The Quirites, points to the legal status of unarmed citizens, paganus it can scarcely be doubted is originally a piece of military slang. Contra fortunam armati contraque pudorem. Praemia nunc alia atque alia emolumenta notemus Sacramentorum. Convallem ruris aviti 35 Improbus aut campum mihi si vicinus ademit Et sacrum effodit medio de limite saxum, 40 45 Quod placitum est ipsis, praestatur tempus agendi, 50 Nec res atteritur longo sufflamine litis. Vivo patre datur: nam, quae sunt parta labore 34 pudorem] He will appeal to his honour, and face you down. 38 sacrum] An idol has been defined as a compromise between a symbol and a fetich. Hermae, Termini, Priapi, were probably nearer fetiches. 39 patulo] Flat. Originally, it was forbidden to offer bloody offerings to Terminus. 41] Repeated from xiii. 137. 42, 43] "I must wait to begin my cause for the year, whatever it is that begins everybody else's." 45] The advocates are almost ready, taking off their wrappers to shew the toga, when they find the 55 172 D. J. JUVENALIS SATIRA XVI. Quamvis jam tremulus, captat pater. Hunc labor aequus Provehit, et pulcro reddit sua dona labori, Ipsius certe ducis hoc referre videtur, Ut, qui fortis erit, sit felicissimus idem, 57-60] Coranus deserves it; at least, it is the general's own interest to promote the bravest, and be liberal to all. One might suspect that from this point onwards we should have had a satire on abuses in the army; the connexion being that commanders do not understand their own interest. The apparent 60 change of subject would not be so great as in Sat. xiv., where the subject up to 106 is education by example, from thence to the end, avarice. 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