Contemporary Juvenal translation?
March 9, 2011 9:02 AM   Subscribe

Help me find this translation of Juvenal's 2nd Satire, please!

I want to find the translation of Juvenal's Satires that seems to be more modern.

For instance:
One of the traditional English translations for the Second Satire:
"I would fain flee to Sarmatia and the frozen Sea when people who ape the Curii and live like Bacchanals dare talk about morals.

The one I am looking for:
"Off to Russia for me, or the Eskimos, hearing these fellows talk (what a nerve) about morals. Pretending their virtue equals the Curian clan while they act like bacchanal women..."

I remember the one I am looking for was called: "Against Hypocritical Queens"

The only place I can find it online (google search: Juvenal "Off to Russia for me") is some kid's homework or blog.

I have parts of it committed to memory, but would like to have it in-hand!

Any ideas? I don't know who translated it, but it is a really fun reading.
posted by Tchad to Writing & Language (3 answers total)
 
Response by poster: Throw a bracketed /em after "bacchanal women" for good measure. Sorry.
posted by Tchad at 9:06 AM on March 9, 2011


Best answer: Google Books identifies this as the 1958 translation by Rolfe Humphries.
posted by verstegan at 9:18 AM on March 9, 2011


Response by poster: Thanks! I thought quoting what I remember would have been enought to get me there but forgot about Google books!
posted by Tchad at 11:40 AM on March 9, 2011


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