Choe Chiwon 崔致遠
c. 900 · Silla Korea · After he gave up office and went into Mount Gaya
Rushing wildly over piled rocks, it roars through range on range, and a human voice can hardly be made out a step away. Always afraid that talk of right and wrong might reach my ears, I have had the running water wrap the whole mountain round.
狂奔疊石吼重巒 人語難分咫尺間
常恐是非聲到耳 故敎流水盡籠山Goun jip, book 1, "Written at the Reading Hall on Mount Gaya"
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c. AD 64 · Roman Empire
Listen: noise of every kind is ringing all round me. I live right above a bathhouse. Now picture every sort of sound that can make one hate one's own ears.
Ecce undique me varius clamor circumsonat: supra ipsum balneum habito. Propone nunc tibi omnia genera vocum quae in odium possunt aures adducereLetters to Lucilius 56
Juvenal Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
c. AD 110 · Roman Empire
What am I to do in Rome? I do not know how to lie. If a book is bad, I cannot praise it and ask for a copy.
Quid Romae faciam? mentiri nescio; librum,
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