A NEW AND LITERAL TRANSLATION OF JUVENAL AND PERSIUS: 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. Ardet....Instat.... Aperte jugulat. SCAL. in Juv. VOL. II. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. TEGG, 73, CHEAPSIDE. 1829. DECIMI JUNII JUVENALIS AQUINATIS SATIRE. SATIRA X. ARGUMENT. The Poet's design in this Satire, which deservedly holds the first rank among all performances of the kind, is to represent the various wishes and desires of mankind, and to shew the folly of them. He mentions riches, honours, eloquence, fame for martial achievements, long life, and beauty, and gives instances of their having proved ruinous to the OMNIBUS in terris, quæ sunt a Gadibus usque This Satire has been always admired; Bishop Burnet goes so far, as to recommend it (together with Persius) to the serious perusal and practice of the divines in his diocese, as the best common places for their sermons, as the storehouses and magazines of moral virtues, from whence they may draw out, as they have occasion, all manner of assistance for the accomplishment of a virtuous life. The tenth Satire (says Crusius in his Lives of the Roman Poets) is inimitable for the excellence of its morality, and sublime sentiments. 5 |