The earliest evidence for the banishment of Juvenal is that of
Sidonius Apollinaris (c. 480), _Carm._ ix. 269, "Non qui tempore
Caesaris secundi | Aeterno coluit Tomos reatu | Nec qui consimili
deinde casu | Ad vulgi tenuem strepentis auram | Irati fuit histrionis
exul," lines which by the exact parallel drawn between Ovid's fate and
Juvenal's imply the belief that Juvenal died in exile. The banishment
is also mentioned by J. Malalas, a Greek historian subsequent to
Justinian, who gives the place as Pentapolis in Africa, _Chron._ x.
262, Dindorf. The inscription (on a stone now lost) is as follows, the
words and letters in brackets being the conjectural restorations of
scholars:--"[Cere] ri sacrum | [D. Iu] nius Iuvenalis | trib. coh. [I]
Delmatarum | II vir quinq. flamen | divi Vespasiani | vovit
dedicav[it] que | sua pec.," _Corp. inscr. lat._ X. 5382, xiii. 201
sqq. The best of the known manuscripts of Juvenal (P) is at
Montpellier (125); but there are several others which cannot be
neglected. Amongst these may be specially mentioned the Bodleian MS.
(Canon. Lat. 41), which contains a portion of Satire vi., the
existence of which was unknown until E. O. Winstedt published it in
the _Classical Review_ (1899), pp. 201 seq. Another fragment in the
Bibliotheque Nationale was described by C. E. Stuart in the _Classical
Quarterly_ (Jan. 1909). Numerous scholia and glossaries attest the
interest taken in Juvenal in post-classical times and the middle ages.
There are two classes of scholia--the older or "Pithoeana," first
published by P. Pithoeus, and the "Cornutus scholia" of less value,
specimens of which have been published by various scholars. The
earliest edition which need now be mentioned is that of P. Pithoeus,
1585, in which P was first used for the text. Amongst later ones we
may mention the commentaries of Ruperti (1819) and C. F. Heinrich
(1839, with the old scholia), O. Jahn (1851, critical with the old
scholia), A. Weidner (1889), L. Friedlander (1895, with a full verbal
index). The most useful English commentaries are those of J. E. B.
Mayor (a voluminous and learned commentary on thirteen of the
_Satires_, ii., vi. and ix. being omitted), J. D. Lewis (1882, with a
prose translation) and J. D. Duff (1898, expurgated, and ii. and ix.
being omitted). There are recent critical texts: conservative and
chiefly based on P, by F. Buecheler (1893, with selections from the
scholia) and S. G. Owen (in the Oxford Series of Texts); on the other
side, by A. E. Housman (1905) and by the same, but with fewer
innovations, in the new _Corpus poetarum latinorum_, fasc. v. The two
last-named editors alone give the newly discovered lines of Satire vi.
There are no recent translations of Juvenal into English verse. Dryden
translated i., iii., vi., x. and xvi., the others being committed to
inferior hands. Other versions are Gifford's (1802), of some merit,
and C.
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