A

NEW AND LITERAL

TRANSLATION

OF

JUVENAL AND PERSIUS;

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WITH

COPIOUS EXPLANATORY NOTES,

BY WHICH

THESE DIFFICULT SATIRISTS ARE RENDERED EASY

AND FAMILIAR TO THE READER.

A New Edition.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

BY THE REV. M. MADAN.

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VOL. I.

OXFORD,

PRINTED BY N. BLISS, FOR R. BLISS, and R. BLISS, JUN.

AND SOLD BY F. AND C. RIVINGTON; CADELL AND DAVIES;

W. MILLER; LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME;

VERNOR, HOOD, AND SHARPE; AND J. HARDING,

LONDON.

SCAL. in Juv.

1807.

PREFACE

ΤΟ

JUVENAL.

DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL was born at Aqui-
num, a town of the Volsci, a people of Latium: hence,
from the place of his birth, he was called Aquinas. It
is not certain whether he was the son, or foster-child,
of a rich freedman. He had a learned education, and,
in the time of Claudius Nero, pleaded causes with great
reputation. About his middle age he applied himself
to the study of Poetry; and, as he saw a daily increase
of vice and folly, he addicted himself to writing Satire:
but, having said something (sat. vii. 1. 88-92.) which
was deemed a reflection on Paris the actor, a minion
of Domitian's, he was banished into Ægypt, at *eighty
years of age, under pretence of sending him as captain
of a
company of soldiers. This was looked upon as a
sort of humorous punishment for what he had said, in
making Paris the bestower of posts in the army.

However, Domitian dying soon after, Juvenal returned to Rome, and is said to have lived there to the times of Nerva and Trajan. At last, worn out with age, he expired in a fit of coughing.

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* Quanquam Octogenarius.-MARSHALL, in Vit. Juv.

+ Ibique ad Nervæ et Trajani tempora supervixisse dicitur MARSHALL, Ib.