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Note: This article is just about a Roman poet, who is the best known individual by this title. For the Christian saint, see Saint Juvenal.

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, Anglicized as Juvenal, was a Roman satiric poet of the late 1st century and early 2nd century AD. Super little is known all about his life, a ancient life existence usually fictitious. He is known for coining a sentence "panem et circenses" ("bread and circuses") to describe a primary pursuits of the Roman public. A rhetorical question "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?", "Who shall guard the guardians?" comes from either his sarcasm On Women.

He was known to become from either Aquinum, and described himself when middle-aged at a period of publication of his number 1 irony, which was onetime in the 100s AD. A latest known date for his activity is 127. For a period he was super unfortunate & was contingent on the rich witharound Rome, & never became swell known; the lone known contemporary mention is in a verse form addressed to him by his friend, the poet Martial.

His living function consists of Xvi caustic remark within hexameter. Across his caustic remark, Juvenal portrays an anger & contempt towards his fellow coeval, which gives usa an insight into Roman values & morality, like than real world. His irony is oft obscene, particularly in the caustic remark in Women. A cases covered by his caustic remark besides reveal tremendously all about a presence of foreigners inside Rome (Satire III), a feeding habits & amusement of the rich (Satires IV & XI).

He can use served under Gnaeus Julius Agricola, commanding a cohort of Dalmatian auxiliaries, in Britain in 78. His acquaintance using Egyptian customs suggests he can likewise stand lived for the period around ancient Egypt, possibly around exile.

Juvenal - Satires [Ancient History Sourcebook]
English 1918 translation for the Loeb Classical Library by G. G. Ramsay of several satires of Juvenal

Satire VI, The Ways of Women
Edited text of the Loeb English translation by G.G. Ramsay, with notes, provided by the Ancient History Sourcebook.






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