PRINTED BY AND FOR BLISS AND BAXTER; Sold also by F. C. and J. RIVINGTON; J. MAWMAN; LONGMAN, HURST and Sons, Cambridge. 1813. PREFACE ΤΟ JUVENAL. DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL was born at Aquinum, 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. l. 88—92.) which was deemed a reflection on Paris the actor, a minion of Domitian's, he was banished into Egypt, 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 humourous 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 old age, he expired in a fit of coughing. He was a man of excellent morals, of an elegant taste and farticl Quanquam Octogenarius. MARSHALL, in Vit. Juv. ✦ Ibique ad Nervæ et Trajani tempora supervixisse dicitur MARSHALL. Ib. |