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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius: Literally translated into English prose, with notes, chronological tables, arguments, &c. — John Shaqi

The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius: Literally translated into English prose, with notes, chronological tables, arguments, &c.Persius

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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius: Literally translated into English prose, with notes, chronological tables, arguments, &c.

Name: The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius: Literally translated into English prose, with notes, chronological tables, arguments, &c.
Author: Persius

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Juvenal -- Translations into English; Verse satire, Latin -- Translations into English

THE
                                SATIRES
                                  OF
                           JUVENAL, PERSIUS,
                        SULPICIA, AND LUCILIUS,

               Literally Translated into English Prose,

           WITH NOTES, CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES, ARGUMENTS, &c.


                                  BY

                      THE REV. LEWIS EVANS, M.A.,

                LATE FELLOW OF WADHAM COLLEGE, OXFORD.

                         TO WHICH IS ADDED THE

               METRICAL VERSION OF JUVENAL AND PERSIUS,

                              BY THE LATE

                         WILLIAM GIFFORD, ESQ.

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                                 1881.

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PREFACE BY THE TRANSLATOR.


While the poetical versions of Juvenal deservedly hold a very high
place in the literature of this country, it is a curious fact that
there exists no single prose translation which can stand the test
of even ordinary criticism. Whether it be that the temptation to a
metrical version of a poetical writer is too great with some, or
whether the labor of faithfully representing the genius of confessedly
the most difficult writer in the Latin language has deterred others,
the fact is undeniable, that there is no prose version from which the
unclassical reader can form any adequate idea of the writings of the
greatest of Satirists.

Madan, though faithful, is utterly unintelligible to any one who has
not the Latin before him. Sheridan is far too free, in every sense of
the word, to be either a fair expositor of his original, or to suit the
taste of the present day; and without any disparagement of the labors
of Sterling, Nuttall, Smart, or Wallace, it was found impossible to
adopt any one of them even as the _basis_ of a version which should be
worthy of a place in the present series.

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