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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius

Note 632 — JUVENAL'S SATIRES. (continued 2)

Lewis Evans translation

Simia. So Ennius, in Cic., Nat. De., i., 35, "Simia, quam similis turpissima bestia nobis!"

"A stick-fallen cheek! that hangs below the jaw, Such wrinkles as a skillful hand would draw For an old grandam ape, when, with a grace, She sits at squat, and scrubs her leathern face." Dryden.

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