Juvenal
Ju've-nal, [Lat. Jiivena'us ; Fr. Juvenal, zhii'vl'.
nil'.j or, more fully, Dec'I-mus Ju'nl-U8 Ju-ve-na'-
Us, one of the most celebrated of the Latin satirical pods,
is believed to have been born in Aquimim, a Volscian
town, about A.r>. 40. But few authentic facts have been
preserved respecting his history: it is said, however, that
he was the s...
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Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD, author of the
Satires. The details of the author's life are unclear, although references within his text to known persons of the late 1st and early 2nd
centuries AD fix his terminus post quem (earliest date of composition).
In ...
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The fourth in order of time and of literary development of the great writers of Roman satire, his predecessors being Lucilius, Horace, and
Persius. Of his life there are known but few particulars. His ancient biographers relate that he was either the son or foster-son of a rich
freedman, and was born at Aquinum (cf. Juv.iii. 319) at a date that c...
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