BY WHICH THESE DIFFICULT SATIRISTS ARE RENDERED IN TWO VOLUME S. By the REV. M. M A D A N. DECIMI JUNII UVENALIS AQUINATIS SAT TIR Æ. SATIRA X. ARGUMENT. The Poet's defign in this Satire, which defervedly holds the first rank among all performances of the kind, is to represent the various wishes and defires of mankind, and to shew the folly of them. He mentions riches, honours, eloquence, fame for martial atchievements, long life, and beauty, and gives inftances of their having proved ruinous to the poffeffors of MNIBUS in terris, quæ funt à Gadibus ufque Auroram & Gangem, Pauci dignofcere poffunt 5 * This Satire has been always exceedingly admired; bishop Burnet goes fo far, as to recommend it (together with Perfius) to the serious perufal and practice of the divines in his diocefe, as the best common places for their fermons, as the storehouses and magazines of moral virtues, from whence they may draw out, as they have occasion, all manner of affistance for the accomplishment of a virtuous life. The tenth Satire (fays Crufius in his Lives of the Roman Poets) is inimitable for the excellence of its morality, and fublime fentiments. Line 1. Gades.] An ifland without the Streights of Gibraltar, in the fouth part of Spain, divided from the continent by a fmall creek. Now called Cadiz, by corruption Cales. |