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    The Satires (Latin: Saturae or Sermones) is a collection of satirical poems written in Latin dactylic hexameters by the Roman poet Horace. Published probably...
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    diem is the inspiration behind Horace's repeated punning on his own name (Horatius ~ hora) in Satires 2.6. The Satires also feature some Stoic, Peripatetic...
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  • shortcomings are held up to ridicule. Satires may also refer to: Satires (Horace), a collection of satirical poems Satires (Juvenal), a collection of satirical...
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    any other woman. "Horace (65 BC–8 BC) - The Satires: Book II Satire V". www.poetryintranslation.com. Roberts, Michael. "Horace Satires 2.5: Restrained Indignation...
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    convenience of readers. Book I: Satires 1–5 Book II: Satire 6 Book III: Satires 7–9 Book IV: Satires 10–12 Book V: Satires 13–16 (Satire 16 is incompletely preserved)...
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    six books of verse satires targeting everything from literary fads to corrupt noblemen. Although Donne had already circulated satires in manuscript, Hall's...
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    composition. As one commentator has put it: "Horace's Epistles may be said to be a continuation of his Satires in the form of letters... But few of the epistles...
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    December festival of Saturnalia, according to Martial. In one of his satires, Horace lists focalia among the "badges of illness" (insignia morbi). In describing...
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  • to refer to satires in prose (cf. the verse Satires of Juvenal and his imitators). Social types attacked and ridiculed by Menippean satires include "pedants...
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    originator of the Roman satire genre, and it fits within a poetic tradition that also includes Horace and Persius. The Satires are a vital source for the...
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    Norton & Co., 2001, p. 121 and p. 33. This summary is taken from: Horace: Satires; Epistles and Ars Poetica, translated and edited by H.R. Fairclough...
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    lawsuit with the praetor Publius Rupilius Rex in 43 BC. In one of his satires, Horace describes the invective that they hurled at one another, concluding...
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  • before 30 BC. In his view it would seem that Horace completed both the Epodes and the second book of his Satires in 30 BC, and immediately started work on...
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  • Satire VI is the most famous[according to whom?] of the sixteen Satires by the Roman author Juvenal written in the late 1st or early 2nd century. In English...
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    Horace, Satires, i. 5. Augustus, 66 Murena was accused of being in a conspiracy with Fannius Caepio and executed in 22 BC ("Index to Horace Satires:...
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    The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis translated into English verse by Mr. Dryden and several other eminent hands; together with the satires of Aulus...
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  • celebrated the exploits and virtues of the former in his satires. Fragments of those books of his satires which seem to have been first given to the world (XXVI–XXIX)...
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    Thrasea Paetus). Reading the satires of Lucilius made Persius want to write like him, and he set to work on a book of his own satires. But he wrote seldom and...
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  • "badinage in your own style" - Trebatius was featured by Horace as a learned adviser in his Satires. As well as a fondness for wine, Trebatius also seemed...
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    London: George Bell & Sons, 1887. Grattius, Cynegeticon, 169. Horace, Epodes,VI. Horace, Satires 2, VI. 114. Lucan, Pharsalia, IV. 440. Lucretius, De rerum...
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  • books, monographs and articles about works of Cicero, and on the satires of Horace and Juvenal whose work he presented in English translation. This work...
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    winds: wind phenomenon observed in California Studio Ghibli § Name Horace, Satires, 1.5.78. Golden Gate Weather Services. Names of Winds. Retrieved on...
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  • Clouds Gaius Lucilius (c. 180–103 BCE, Roman Republic) Horace (65–8 BCE, Roman Republic) – Satires Ovid (43 BCE – 17 CE, Roman Republic/Roman Empire) –...
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  • describes a man whose excessive wealth was criticized by Horace in one of his Satires. Horace calls the man Trausius, an equally obscure nomen. Marcus...
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    and certain other prominent figures felt the sting of his sharp-witted satires. Some were so virulent that Pope even carried pistols while walking his...
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  • he is the person ridiculed by Horace (Satires, ii.5.40) and whether he is identical with the turgidus Alpinus (Satires, i.10.36), the author of an Aethiopis...
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    poems written by the Roman poet Horace. They were published in 30 BC and form part of his early work alongside the Satires. Following the model of the Greek...
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  • in the circle of friends with Virgil and Maecenas, as indicated by Horace (Satires). According to Donatus's Life of Virgil, after Virgil's death, Plotius...
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  • Aristius Fuscus (category Horace)
    Aristius Fuscus was a friend of the Roman poet Horace, and is mentioned in Satire I.9, Ode 1.22 and elsewhere. Horace addresses Epistle 1.10 to Fuscus and links...
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  • violence of his fierce model. These particular poems of Horace, which are short lyrical satires, have appropriated almost exclusively the name of epodes...
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