army of maids is in attendance to get her ready for the public. She lives with the husband as if he were a stranger. Superstitions lines 6.511-541 – The eunuch priest of Bellona and the mother of the gods is given complete credence by some women. Others are fanatic adherents of the cult of Isis and its charlatan priests. lines 6.542-591 – Still others listen to Jewish or Armenian soothsayers, or believe in the prophetic abilities of Chaldaean astrologers. Even worse is a woman who is so skilled at astrology that others seek her out for advice. Poor women get their fortunes told down by the Circus Maximus. Drugs and Poisons lines 6.592-609 – At least poor women will have children. Rich women instead receive abortions to avoid the bother. But husbands should be glad since they would just become the father of a half-Ethiopian anyway. Women also get abandoned children to pass off as those of their husbands; these become the Roman elite – as Fortuna laughs. lines 6.610-626 – Women love to drug and poison their husbands to get their way. The wife of Caligula drove him insane with a potion, and Agrippina the Younger poisoned Claudius. lines 6.627-633 – The evil stepmother would like to poison rich stepchildren. Epilogue lines 6.634-43 – The narrator asks if his listener thinks he has slipped into the hyperbole of tragedy. But Pontia admits to murdering her two children and would have killed seven if there had been seven. We should believe what the poets tell us about Medea and Procne, yet they were less evil than women now, because they did what they did due to rage, not money. There is a Clytemnestra on every street. Notes Further reading Anderson, William S. 1956. "Juvenal 6: A Problem in Structure" Classical Philology, Vol. 51, No. 2 (Apr., 1956), pp. 73–94. Anderson, William S.. 1982. Essays on Roman Satire. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Adams, J. N.. 1982. The Latin Sexual Vocabulary. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Braund, Susanna H. 1992. "Juvenal – Misogynist or Misogamist?". The Journal of Roman Studies Vol. 82 (1992), pp. 71–86. Braund, Susanna M. 1988. Beyond Anger: A Study of Juvenal’s Third Book of Satires. Cambridge: Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge. Braund, Susanna. 1996. Juvenal Satires Book I. Cambridge: Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge. Braund, Susanna. 1996. The Roman Satirists and their Masks. London: