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The paper is the latest experience in the series of analitic investigatin of Cantemir’s satyres on microlevel and is devoted to one of the main oppositions - "youth/old age". Thesaurus analysis of lexical-semantic fields, grammar, metaphorical codes, rhetorical devices makes evident the laws of the internal symmetry and close interrelation of all key oppositions on which the whole structure or satyrs rests.