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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

|   |    |      |Corbulo's successful campaign in Syria.
  |   |    |      |
  |210|  61|   814|Boadicea's victory. Victory of Suetonius Paulinus.
  |   |    |      |
  |   |    |      |Galba in Spain. «Birth of Pliny the younger, a few
  |   |    |      |years after Tacitus.»
  |   |    |      |
  |   |  62|   815|Death of Burrus.
  |   |    |      |
  |   |    |      |Sofonius Tigellinus succeeds as "Præfectus Cohortibus
  |   |    |      |Prætoriis." Cf. Tac. Ann. xiv. 57; xv. 37, 72. Sat. i.
  |   |    |      |155, "Pone Tigellinum," etc.
  |   |    |      |
  |   |    |      |Nero marries Poppæa. Death of Octavia. Tac. Ann. xiv.
  |   |    |      |60, 64.
  |   |    |      |
  |   |    |      |Pallas put to death for his money. Tac. Ann. xiv. 65.
  |   |    |      |Cf. A.D. 48.
  |   |    |      |
  |   |    |      |Death of Persius, in his 28th year.
  |   |    |      |
  |   |  64|   817|Nero in the theatre. Fires at Rome. Only four regions
  |   |    |      |remaining entire. Tac. Ann. xv. 40. Persecution of
  |   |    |      |Christians (c. 44), on whom the blame of the fire was
  |   |    |      |laid, and who were punished with the "Tunica Molesta."
  |   |    |      |Sat. i. 156; viii. 235. Suet. Ner. 16.
  |   |    |      |
  |211|  65|   818|Piso's conspiracy. Death of Seneca. Tac. Ann. xv. 60.
  |   |    |      |Sat. viii. 211, "Libera si dentur populo suffragia,
  |   |    |      |quis tam Perditus ut dubitet Senecam præferre Neroni."
  |   |    |      |Sat. x. 15, "Temporibus diris igitur jussuque Neronis
  |   |    |      |Longinum, et magnos Senecæ prædivitis hortos clausit,"
  |   |    |      |_et seq._
  |   |    |      |
  |   |    |      |Death of Lucan, in his 26th year. Sat. vii. 79. Tac.
  |   |    |      |Ann. xv. 70. Suet. Ner. 35.
  |   |    |      |
  |   |    |      |Death of Poppæa. Tac. Ann. xvi. 6. Sat. viii. 218, "Sed
  |   |    |      |nec Electræ jugulo se polluit, aut Spartani Sanguine
  |   |    |      |conjugii."
  |   |    |      |
  |   |  66|   819|Death of Thrasea Pætus. Tac. Ann. xvi. 21-35.
  |   |    |      |
  |   |    |      |Martial comes to Rome, æt. 23.
  |   |    |      |
  |   |    |      |Nero sets out for Greece: meets Vatinius ("Sutrinæ
  |   |    |      |tabernæ alumnus," Tac. Ann. xv. 34) at Beneventum. Sat.
  |   |    |      |v. 47, "Tu Beneventani Sutoris nomen habentem Siccabis
  |   |    |      |calicem nasorum quatuor."
  |   |    |      |
  |   |    |      |Lubinus places the banishment of Annæus Cornutus in
  |   |    |      |this year. Cf. ad Pers. v. 5.
  |   |    |      |
  |   |  67|   820|Death of Corbulo.
  |   |    |      |
  |   |    |      |Nero in Greece, celebrates the 211th Olympiad (the
  |   |    |      |Olympiad having been deferred for him, Suet. Ner.
  |   |    |      |19-22), and adds a musical contest. Sat. viii. 225,
  |   |    |      |"Gaudentis fœdo peregrina ad pulpita cantu Prostitui,
  |   |    |      |Graiæque apium meruisse coronæ."
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