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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

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  |   | 115|   868|Earthquake at Antioch, in January or February, in which
  |   |    |      |the consul, M. Vergilianus Pedo, perished. Dio, lxviii.
  |   |    |      |24, 25.
  |   |    |      |
  |   |    |      |In the spring Trajan marches to Armenia. Sat. vi. 411,
  |   |    |      |"Nutare urbes, subsidere terram."
  |   |    |      |
  |   |    |      |«Martyrdom of S. Ignatius.»
  |   |    |      |
  |   | 116|   869|Trajan enters Ctesiphon, and takes the title of
  |   |    |      |"Parthicus." Sat. vi. 407, "Instantem regi Armenio
  |   |    |      |Parthoque."
  |   |    |      |
  |224| 117|   870|Trajan reaches Selinus in Cilicia, and dies in August,
  |   |    |      |in his 63d year.
  |   |    |      |
  |   |    |      |Hadrian, at Antioch, succeeds, in consequence of a
  |   |    |      |fictitious adoption managed by Plotina. Cf. Gibbon,
  |   |    |      |vol. i. p. 130. To this there is supposed to be
  |   |    |      |an allusion in Sat. i. 40, "Optima summi Nunc via
  |   |    |      |processus vetulæ vesica beatæ."
  |   |    |      |
  |   | 118|   871|Hadrian comes to Rome.
  |   |    |      |
  |   |    |      |This is sixty years after the consulship of Fonteius.
  |   |    |      |Cf. A.D. 59. The thirteenth Satire was therefore
  |   |    |      |probably written this year. l. 17, "Stupet hæc qui jam
  |   |    |      |post terga reliquit Sexaginta annos, Fonteio consule
  |   |    |      |natus." The common story is, that Calvinus, to whom
  |   |    |      |this Satire is addressed, was _three years_ Juvenal's
  |   |    |      |senior.
  |   |    |      |
  |   |    |      |Probably the lines in Satire iii., from 60-113, are
  |   |    |      |an interpolation at a period subsequent to the first
  |   |    |      |composition of the Satire, and refer to this period.
  |   |    |      |Hadrian brought with him from _Antioch_ to Rome many
  |   |    |      |foreigners of all professions. Cf. iii. 62, "Jampridem
  |   |    |      |Syrus in Tiberim defluxit _Orontes_." Among these
  |   |    |      |he particularly favored Epictetus of Hierapolis in
  |   |    |      |Phrygia, Favorinus of Arelate in Gaul, and Dionysius
  |   |    |      |of Miletus. To one of these Juvenal may refer in
  |   |    |      |Sat. iii. 75, "Quemvis hominem secum attulit ad nos
  |   |    |      |Grammaticus, Rhetor, Geometres, Pictor, Aliptes, Augur,
  |   |    |      |Schœnobates, Medicus, Magus, omnia novit, Ad summum
  |   |    |      |non Maurus erat nec Sarmata nec Thrax," _et seq._
  |   |    |      |Cf. Spartian. Hadrian, c. 5, and especially c. 16,
  |   |    |      |where he says, "In summâ familiaritate Epictetum et
  |   |    |      |Heliodorum, philosophos, et _grammaticos, Rhetores_,
  |   |    |      |musicos, _Geometras, pictores_, astrologos habuit:
  |   |    |      |præ cæteris eminente Favorino," where the order is
  |   |    |      |rather remarkable. Dionysius of Miletus, moreover,

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