Juvenal Quotes
Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.
Juvenal. Juvenal and Persius. Translated by G. G. Ramsay, Harvard UP, 1918, p. 101.
Misattributed. According to Snopes.com, the quote originated in 1989 with Representative Claudine Schneider of Rhode Island. She recounted that the she and Quayle had attended an event at the Belgian embassy, where then-Vice President Quayle complimented Representative Schneider on her command of French. Schneider then attributed to Quayle the belief that Latin was the lingua franca of Latin America, before concluding that the whole story was a joke. However, many publications, including Newsday, The Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, and Time, reported Schneider's joke as fact, further cementing in the public consciousness the perception of the vice president as an intellectual lightweight.
On a visit to England, Fillmore was offered an honorary degree from Oxford University whose diplomas were always in Latin. He declined.
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.
