"Secuit Lucilius urbem, te Lupe, te Muci, et genuinum fregit in illis; omne vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amico tangit et admissus circum praecordia ludit, callidus excusso populum suspendere naso."
— Gaius Lucilius

January 1, 1970

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Persius, Satires, I, 114–5; Ramsay (1918), p. 329; or "lashed the city"; see Peter Green, Essays in Antiquity (1960), pp. 154–5