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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

|   |    |      |cineres atque ossa volucri Carpento rapitur pinguis
  |   |    |      |_Damasippus_, et ipse, Ipse rotam stringit multo
  |   |    |      |sufflamine consul;" where some read "Lateranus;" others
  |   |    |      |say Lateranus is intended by Damasippus.
  |   |    |      |
  |   |    |      |This is probably the date of the event recorded in Sat.
  |   |    |      |iv., "Illa tempora sævitiæ claras quibus abstulit Urbi
  |   |    |      |Illustresque animas impune et vindice nullo," l. 151.
  |   |    |      |Cf. Tac. Agric. 44, who says that after the death of
  |   |    |      |Agricola (A.D. 93) "Domitianus non jam per intervalla
  |   |    |      |ac spiramenta temporum sed continuo et velut uno ictu
  |   |    |      |Rempublicam exhausit," _et seq._
  |   |    |      |
  |   |  95|   848|Death of Clemens, the consul.
  |   |    |      |
  |   |    |      |«Persecution of Christians. St. John at Patmos.»
  |   |    |      |
  |   |    |      |Flavia Domitilla exiled to _Pontia_. «Cf. xiii. 246,
  |   |    |      |"Aut maris Ægæi rupem, scopulosque frequentes Exulibus
  |   |    |      |magnis."»
  |   |    |      |
  |   |    |      |The fourth book of the Sylvæ of Statius written.
  |   |    |      |
  |   |    |      |In the third book written A.D. 94, he mentions the
  |   |    |      |close of the Thebais. Cf. Sat. vii. 82, "Curritur ad
  |   |    |      |vocem jucundam et carmen amicæ Thebaidos, lætam fecit
  |   |    |      |quum Statius Urbem Promisitque diem."
  |   |    |      |
  |   |    |      |The Thebaid had employed twelve years.
  |   |    |      |
  |   |  96|   849|Domitian killed in September, in his 45th year. Sat.
  |   |    |      |iv. 153, "Sed periit postquam cerdonibus esse timendus
  |   |    |      |Cœperat, hoc nocuit Lamiarum cæde madenti."
  |   |    |      |
  |   |    |      |Nerva succeeds.
  |   |    |      |
  |219|  97|   850|Nerva adopts Trajan. «Tacitus "Consul Suffectus."»
  |   |    |      |
  |   |  98|   851|Death of Nerva, Jan. 25th, in his 63d year.
  |   |    |      |
  |   |    |      |Trajan (then at Cologne) succeeds.
  |   |    |      |
  |   |    |      |«Plutarch flourishes. Pliny, Præf. Ærarii Saturni.»
  |   |    |      |
  |   |  99|   852|Trajan enters Rome.
  |   |    |      |
  |   |    |      |«Martial, 10th book, 2d edition. Silius Italicus still
  |   |    |      |living.»
  |   |    |      |
  |   | 100|   853|Consulship of M. Cornelius Fronto with Trajan. Sat. i.
  |   |    |      |12, "Frontonis platani, convulsaque marmora clamant
  |   |    |      |Semper et assiduo ruptæ lectore columnæ."
  |   |    |      |
  |   |    |      |Pliny and Tacitus impeach Marius Priscus, proconsul of
  |   |    |      |Africa. Fronto Catius defends him. Cf. Plin. ii. Epist.
  |   |    |      |xi. The case was tried before Trajan in person. Cf.
  |   |    |      |Sat. i. 47, "Et hic damnatus inani Judicio; quid enim

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