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Old January 31st 07, 04:50 AM posted to rec.games.chess.politics
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Interesting textual crux in Juvenal's misogynistic Satire VI, courtesy
of Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire_VI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_cu...os_custodes%3F

audio quid ueteres olim moneatis amici,
"pone seram, cohibe." sed quis custodiet ipsos
custodes? cauta est et ab illis incipit uxor.

I hear always the admonishment of my friends:
"Bolt her in, constrain her!" But who will watch
the watchmen? The wife plans ahead and begins with them!

But the version in the Oxoniensis Ms. is even blunter:

...noui
Ox29
consilia et ueteres quaecumque monetis amici, Ox30
'pone seram, cohibe'. sed quis custodiet ipsos Ox31
custodes, qui nunc lasciuae furta puellae
Ox32
hac mercede silent? crimen commune tacetur. Ox33

... I
know
the plan that my friends always advise me to adopt:
"Bolt her in, constrain her!" But who can watch
the watchmen? They keep quiet about the girl's
secrets and get her as their payment; everyone hushes it up.

So too Sloan: those who keep quiet about his misdeeds get a dirty
trickster at their service....

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