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Sorry, It Was Never in My Mouth: "The Monica Lewinsky case, per se, has left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths," says pundit-in-training Ruth Conniff of the Progressive ( Fox News Sunday ).
The passage in Juvenal's poem which corresponds most closely to the one quoted by Mr. Conniff is near the beginning (lines 7-9), where Juvenal, building up to an ironic crescendo, shudders at the thought of:
In Richard Conniff's urbane account of travelers' putdowns of some of the great and not so great cities of the world [XIV,3], he quotes a splendid passage from Dr. Samuel Johnson's poem on London, which culminates with the words, “Here falling houses thunder on your head, / And here a female atheist talks you dead.”
While Mr. Conniff is doubtless aware of the connection, he does not mention the fact that Johnson's poem is throughout a very close and respectful pastiche of the Latin poet Juvenal's Satire III, on the city of Rome.