Here are three ways of saying the same thing. First, here’s Juvenal from the Tenth Satire:<\/p>\n
Haud facile emergunt, quorum virtutibus obstat \/ Res angusta domi<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Now here’s Dryden’s translation:<\/p>\n
Rarely they rise by Virtue’s aid, who lie \/ Plung’d in the depth of helpless Poverty”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And finally here’s Samuel Johnson’s very concise translation:<\/p>\n
Slow rises worth, by poverty depress’d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
However the thought is expressed, I agree with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here are three ways of saying the same thing. First, here’s Juvenal from the Tenth Satire: Haud facile emergunt, quorum virtutibus obstat \/ Res angusta domi Now here’s Dryden’s translation: Rarely they rise by Virtue’s aid, who lie \/ Plung’d in the depth of helpless Poverty” And finally here’s Samuel Johnson’s very concise translation: Slow … Continue reading “Three ways of saying the same thing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[168,221],"class_list":["post-1512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-justice","tag-dr-samuel-johnson","tag-juvenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1943,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions\/1943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}