If you’ll only forbear to recite.
About the last of the great Latin Satirists is Juvenal, a contemporary of Martial.
His lines in translation, have a modern ring, but that may be merely because the fundamental sources and themes of wit are universal.
Juvenal
COSMETIC DISGUISE
A woman stops at nothing when she wears
Rich emeralds round her neck, and in her ears
Pearls of enormous size; these justify
Her faults, and make all lawful in her eye.
Sure, of all ills with which mankind are cursed,
A wife who brings you money is the worst.