The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius: Literally translated into English prose, with notes, chronological tables, arguments, &c.

ARGUMENT. To the first book there is said to have been annexed an Epistle to L. Ælius Stilo, the friend of the poet, to whom in all probability this book was dedicated. ...

ARGUMENT. On the subject of this book the commentators differ: some supposing that it was directed against luxury and effeminacy. But the avarice and licentiousness of t...

ARGUMENT. We have not only much more ample and satisfactory information respecting the subject of this Satire from ancient writers, but the Fragments which have come dow...

ARGUMENT. The Scholiast, on the third Satire of Persius, tells us that the subject of that Satire, which is directed against the luxury and vices of the rich, was borrow...

ARGUMENT. The person to whom this book is addressed, is supposed by Scaliger to have been a professor of the art of rhetoric. Lucilius complains that this friend, though...

ARGUMENT. Schoenbeck considers the subject of this book to have been an attack upon the crafty and dishonest tricks of pleaders in the forum. Gerlach sees in it little m...

ARGUMENT. The _general_ subject of the book seems to be agreed upon by all commentators, though they differ as to the details. Schoenbeck says it is directed against the...

ARGUMENT. The eighth book, as Schoenbeck supposes, consisted of an exposition of domestic life, with a discussion as to the virtues which a good wife ought to possess. D...

ARGUMENT. The subject of the ninth book is known from several notices in the old grammarians.[1726] It is said to have contained strictures on the orthography of the anc...

ARGUMENT. The old Scholiast, in his Life of Persius, tells us that "after he had quitted school, and the instruction of his tutors, he was so much struck with the tenth ...

ARGUMENT. Schoenbeck supposes this book to have been written in memory of the Iberian war; because it not only touches on military affairs, but contains also some bitter...

ARGUMENT. The extant Fragments of this book are too few and too varied in their matter to enable us to form any definite idea of the general subject. From a passage in D...

ARGUMENT. The Fragments of this book, as well as of the twelfth, are too few to admit of any opinion being satisfactorily arrived at with respect to its subject. Schoenb...

ARGUMENT. The fourteenth book contained, according to Schoenbeck's idea, the praises of a placid and easy life. Duentzer, on the other hand, says the subject was ambitio...

ARGUMENT. None of the commentators on Lucilius have ventured to give a decisive opinion on the subject of this book, with the exception of Duentzer; who says that the po...

ARGUMENT. We have in the old grammarians two conflicting accounts of the subject of this book. Censorinus (de Die Natali, iii.) says that it contained a discussion on th...

ARGUMENT. This book contained, according to Schoenbeck's view, a discussion on the dogma of the Stoics, "that no one could be said to possess any thing peculiarly his ow...

ARGUMENT. From the small portion of this book that has come down to us, it is but mere idle conjecture to attempt to decide upon its subject. Petermann says it treated "...

ARGUMENT. The same may be said of this book as of the eighteenth. The few Fragments that remain being insufficient to furnish any data for a positive opinion as to its s...

ARGUMENT. Gerlach without hesitation pronounces the subject of this book to have been "the superstition of the lower orders, and the luxury of the banquets of the wealth...

1 Those hired female mourners who weep at a stranger's funeral, and tear their hair, and bawl louder....[1825] 2 A slave neither faithless to my owner, nor unserviceable t...

1 ... and the slave who had licked with his lips the nice cheese-cakes.[1828] 2 ... to hold[1829] FOOTNOTES: [1828] _Lamberat._ Cf. Hor., i., Sat. iii., 80, "Si quis eum...

ARGUMENT. Gerlach considers this book to contain the strongest evidences of how much Horace was indebted to Lucilius, not only in the choice of his subjects, but also in...

ARGUMENT. The Fragments of this book are of too diversified a character to form a correct conclusion with regard to the general subject. Corpet admits the difficulty, bu...

ARGUMENT. Van Heusde considers that this book contained some severe strictures on the part of a morose old man, or stern uncle, on the over-indulgence of a fond and fool...

ARGUMENT. The remains of this book are so mutilated and so diversified, that, as Gerlach says, "one might be disposed to imagine that the very essence of the subject was...

ARGUMENT. Most of the commentators seem to be agreed that the subject of this book was "matrimonial life." Mercer considers that it contained an altercation between a ma...