Thomas B. Macaulay: "Satire, memang, satu-satunya jenis komposisi di m...

"Satire, memang, satu-satunya jenis komposisi di mana penyair Latin yang karyanya turun kepada kita bukan sekadar peniru model asing; dan karena itu jenis komposisi di mana mereka tidak pernah unggul."

--- Thomas B. Macaulay

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Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of foreign models; and it is therefore the sort of composition in which they have never been excelled.