JUVENALIS, Decimus Junius, & PERSIUS FLACCUS, Aulus.

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The Satires. First edition thus, a complete English verse translation of the two great Latin satirists by various hands. All seven of Persius's satires, along with Juvenal's Satires I, III, VI, X, and XVI, are translated by John Dryden; Juvenal's Satire VII is by his son Charles and Satire XIV by his other son, John.One of Tonson's handsome folios, the volume is prefaced by a substantial essay in which Dryden presented a history of the genre, a critique of its principal Latin practitioners, and reflections on its modern use."The translation of Juvenal and Persius (1693) ushered in the notion of translation as a kind of modernization, of making the translated author, as Dryden put it, 'speak that kind of English, which he wou'd have spoken had he liv'd in England, and Written to this Age'"(ODNB).

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