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Satire III compares the morally complacent man to Natta, who has lost all sense of right and wrong
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Satire III compares the morally complacent man to Natta, who has lost all sense of right and wrong (Satires (Persius), Satires (Persius) > Satire III > Summary of Satire III)
Satires (Persius)
- attestation: Satire III compares the morally complacent man to Natta, who has lost all sense of right and wrong (Satires (Persius) > Satire III > Summary of Satire III)
"will soon be no better than Natta who has lost all sense of right and wrong."
- attribution: Persius describes the morally degenerate Natta as a man deadened by vice, whose heart is overlaid with brawn and who has no sense of sin (Satires (Persius) > Satire III > Text)
"Are you not ashamed to live after the fashion of the abandoned Natta, a man deadened by vice, whose heart is overlaid with brawn, who has no sense of sin, no knowledge of what he is losing?"
Appears in: Beings, Entities in Satires (Persius), Roman Tradition