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This Book Is In French. Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

Bite and wit characterize two seminal and stellar authors in the history of satirical writing, Persius (34-62 CE) and Juvenal (writing about sixty years later). The latter especially had a…

This Book Is In French. Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of…

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Juvenal, writing between AD 110 and 130, was one of the two great satirists of ancient Rome (the other being Horace). His powerful and witty attacks on the vices of…