Juvenal Quotes
Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender.
[Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se
Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]
Juvenal. Juvenal and Persius. Translated by G. G. Ramsay, Harvard University Press, 1918, Satire 8, lines 140-141.
Gregory the Great. The particular offences under discussion were incest which was common among the English people before they had been Christianized. The responsibility for acts “in ignorance of the law” has been debated as long as there has been law. Gregory’s view is remarkably contemporary.
Decimus Junius Juvenalis (Latin: [ˈdɛkɪmʊs ˈjuːniʊs jʊwɛˈnaːlɪs]), known in English as Juvenal (/ˈdʒuːvənəl/ JOO-vən-əl), was a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD. He is the author of the collection of satirical poems known as the Satires. The details of the author's life are unclear, although references within his text to known persons of the late first and early second centuries AD fix his earliest date of composition. One recent scholar argues that his first book was published in 100 or 101. Because of a reference to a recent political figure, his fifth and final surviving book must date from after 127.
