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Book V: Satires 13–16 (Satire 16 is incompletely preserved) In a tone and manner ranging from irony to rage, Juvenal criticizes the actions and beliefs of many of his contemporaries, providing insight into value systems and questions of morality as opposed to the realities of Roman life.
Latin text of The Satires of Juvenal at The Latin Library; English translations of all 16 satires at the Tertullian Project. Together with a survey of the manuscript transmission. Works by Juvenal at Perseus Digital Library; English translations of Satires 1, 2, 3, 6, 8 and 9; Juvenal's first 3 "Satires" in English
Satire VI is the most famous [according to whom?] of the sixteen Satires by the Roman author Juvenal written in the late 1st or early 2nd century. In English translation, this satire is often titled something in the vein of Against Women due to the most obvious reading of its content.
The phrase, as it is normally quoted in Latin, comes from the Satires of Juvenal, the 1st–2nd century Roman satirist.Although in its modern usage the phrase has wide-reaching applications to concepts such as tyrannical governments, uncontrollably oppressive dictatorships, and police or judicial corruption and overreach, in context within Juvenal's poem it refers to the impossibility of ...
"Bread and circuses" (or "bread and games"; from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metonymic phrase referring to superficial appeasement.It is attributed to Juvenal (Satires, Satire X), a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD, and is used commonly in cultural, particularly political, contexts.
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Dr. Bartholomew Holyday used to claim that Stapleton made use of his translation of Juvenal, having borrowed it in manuscript. The Loves of Hero and Leander: a Greek poem [by Musæus] translated into English verse, with annotations upon the original, Oxford, 1645; London, 1647. Juvenal's Sixteen Satyrs [translated in verse].
Oldham was a satirist who imitated the classical Satires of Juvenal. His best-known works are "A Satire Upon a Woman Who by Her Falsehood and Scorn Was the Death of My Friend", [4] written in 1678, and "A Satire against Virtue", written in 1679. During his lifetime, his poetry was published anonymously. [5] His translations of Juvenal were ...