Talk:Satire VI

Tower Commission?
What's the source for the fact that the "custodes" quotation is the epigraph of the Tower Commission report? I haven't read that report, and I can't find it online; the only references that I know of for this fact derive from Alan Moore (writer of Watchman). Certainly the link in the article does not say this (so I will remove it). So I'm a little worried that a mistake by Moore has become an urban legend through comic fans; it was disconcerting to come to Wikipedia for confirmation and found that there was none. Even if the report is not online (it would be nice but we can't have everything), is anybody willing to say that they have read it and will therefore take the personal responsibility to cite the report itself as the source for this fact? (In the meantime, I'll put in a link to an interview where Moore talks about this.) —Toby Bartels (talk) 08:27, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Unwarranted view?
No citation is given for this opinion: "While women are prone to temptation, Juvenal casts men as agents and enablers of the feminine proclivity toward vice. In the written Roma of the Satires, men will even impersonate eunuchs to get unmonitored access to corrupt a woman (6.O-20-30)." Is this a standard view, or simply the editor's? I for one don't see it in this light. This is not simply a description of what any reader can see is in the satire, but an interpretative view, so I suggest it should have either have a citation or be omitted. And why call it "Roma" rather than "Rome" (unless it is a reference to Fellini perhaps)? Kanjuzi (talk) 15:34, 3 November 2018 (UTC)