In Juvenal's third satire the main speaker, Umbricius, delivers a speech of farewell (asyntacticon) as he prepares to leave Rome. In it, he mounts a sustained attack on life in the capital. By contrast, he praises Italian country towns, a combination oflaudatioandvituperatiowhich is foreshadowed in the prefatory praise of provincial Cumae (2–5) and denigration of Rome (5–9).