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The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face. — Juvenal

Poem

The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.

In the original Latin

Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.

Juvenal
Satires
★ 7.3
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Traveling lightlyTravel
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Proverbs, aphorisms and adages
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Poem
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Classical antiquity
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Juvenal
Provenance
Current citation
Juvenal. The Satires, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2008, satire 10.
Original citation
Juvenal. Satirae [Satires]. c. 127, satire 10.

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