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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius

Note 836 — JUVENAL'S SATIRES. (continued 3)

Lewis Evans translation

Vulturis atri. Cf. Æschylus, Pr. V., 1020. Virg., Æn., vi., 595, "Rostroque immanis vultur obunco, Immortale jecur tondens, fœcundaque pœnis viscera, rimaturque epulis habitatque sub alto pectore, nec fibris requies datur ulla renatis."

"Wheels, furies, vultures, quite unheard of things, And the gay ghosts were strangers yet to kings!" Badham.

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