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Juvenal


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Rome, Italy
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Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known commonly by the shortened Anglicized version of his name Juvenal, was a Roman poet of the late first and early second centuries AD/CE. He is the author of The Satires, a series of sixteen short poems in dactylic hexameter on a variety of subjects.

Date of birth: ca. 55 A.D.
Date of death: ca. 138 A.D.

Average rating: 3.89 · 3,288 ratings · 198 reviews · 834 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Sixteen Satires

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Juvenal and Persius

4.14 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 132 — 374 editions
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Contro le donne

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Satires, Book I

3.98 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1996 — 8 editions
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Satire

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Satires I, III, X

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Complete Works of Juvenal

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The Satires of Decimus Juni...

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Vreden Skriver Digtet

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Saturae XIII. Thirteen Sati...

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“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?”
Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires

“Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.”
Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires

“Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.”
Juvenal, The Satires



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