Juvenal

Decimus Junius Juvenalis, known as Juvenal, was a Roman satirist who wrote in the late first and early second centuries AD. Little is certain about his life; he is traditionally linked with the town of Aquinum, and his sixteen hexameter satires, gathered in five books, belong to the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian.

The satires attack the vices of Rome: patronage and legacy-hunting, the bustle and danger of the city, the follies of women, the vanity of ambition and the abuses of wealth and power. The English here is G. G. Ramsay's prose translation in the Loeb Classical Library (1918), given without the facing Latin, his notes or his introduction.