| | | |While on the Nile he lost his favorite Antinous, and | | | |built a city to his memory, which he called after him. | | | |It is very probable that the lines, Sat. i. 60, _seq._, | | | |referring primarily to Nero and Sporus, may have a | | | |secondary allusion to Hadrian and Antinous. | | | | | | | |«Appian flourished. Galen born.» | | | | | | 138| 891|Death of Hadrian in his 63d year. | | | | L. E. APPENDIX, ON THE DATE OF JUVENAL'S SATIRES. The first Satire appears, from internal evidence, to have been written subsequently to at least the larger portion of the other Satires. But in this, as probably in many others, lines were interpolated here and there, at a period long after the original composition of the main body of the Satire; the cycle of events reproducing such a combination of circumstances, that the Satirist could make his shafts come home with two-fold pungency. For instance, the lines 60 _et seq._, which probably were in the first edition of the Satire directed against Nero and his favorite Sporus, would tell with equal effect against Hadrian and Antinous. It is impossible, therefore, from any one given passage, to assign a date to any of the Satires of Juvenal. All that can be done, is to point out the allusion probably intended in the particular passages, and by that means fix a date prior to which we may reasonably conclude that portion could not have been written. In those Satires whose subject is less complicated and extensive, a nearer approximation may be obtained to the date of the composition; as e. g. in the case of the second and eleventh Satires, and we may add the thirteenth and fifteenth.