“It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat of government, and took little part in the strife of factions, gave vent to their petty local animosities in coarse Fescennine verse.” LittlesGovernmentCertainCommonPeriodsDistanceLocalsSeatsSatireRomeVersesStrifePettyFactionsSatiricalAnimosityCoarse Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine period. And yet what a privilege it is to be even a beggar in Rome!” EarthLyingPoorPeriodsClothesShoesPrivilegeDirtyRomeBeggarRaggedPicturesque Author:M. E. W. Sherwood