Juvena, Satire XV: `Bending down, they start to tear up the stones they look for, missiles for civil strife, not a rock of the weight that Turnus and Ajax threw, or that with which Tytides [Diomedes] struck Aeneas on the hip, but ones which, unlike those,the right hands of our own time are able to launch. For that race was declining when Homer was alive, and the earth now brings forth bad and feeble men, so that when some god has seen them, he smiles and detests them.'