Juvenal savagely satirized the Domitianic court in his Satires, depicting the Emperor and his entourage as corrupt, violent and unjust.

Juvenal brilliantly satirized vice.

Epigram is associated with ' point ' because the European epigram tradition takes the Latin poet Martial as its principal model ; he copied and adapted Greek models ( particularly the contemporary poets Lucillius and Nicarchus ) selectively and in the process redefined the genre, aligning it with the indigenous Roman tradition of ' satura ', hexameter satire, as practised by ( among others ) his contemporary Juvenal.

" The view is expressed by the satirist Juvenal:

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His character as a munificent patron of literature-which has made his name a household word-is gratefully acknowledged by the recipients of it and attested by the regrets of the men of letters of a later age, expressed by Martial and Juvenal.

Pope's formal education ended at this time, and from then on he mostly educated himself by reading the works of classical writers such as the satirists Horace and Juvenal, the epic poets Homer and Virgil, as well as English authors such as Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare and John Dryden.

In Welsh versions his name is Gweirydd, son of Cynfelyn, and his brother is called Gwydyr ; the name Arviragus is taken from a poem by Juvenal.

Juvenal is also highly critical of her in his Satire VI ( first translation by Peter Green and second translation from wikisource ):

According to the Satire VI by Juvenal, Messalina worked in a brothel under the assumed name Lycisca, or ' The Wolf-Girl '.

* Berenice, 81 AD who first married her uncle Herod, king of Chalcis, and afterwards lived with her brother Agrippa, reputedly in an incestuous relationship, and subsequently married Polamo, king of Cilicia ; she is alluded to by Juvenal ; Bernice also had a common-law relationship with the Roman emperor Titus.

Information about Statius ' life is almost entirely drawn from his Silvae and a mention by the satirist Juvenal.

The word " moneta " is where we get the words " money ", or " monetize ", used by writers such as Ovid, Martial, Juvenal, and Cicero.

He was mentioned by his pupil, Pliny, and by Juvenal, who may have been another student, “ as an example of sobriety and of worldly success unusual in the teaching profession ” ( Gwynn, 139 ).

There is evidence that this joke dates back to Roman times: Satire VI by Juvenal says that one cannot be happy while one's mother-in-law is still alive.

Horace and Juvenal were also widely translated and imitated, Horace most famously by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester and Juvenal by Samuel Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes.

The manuscripts of Persius fall into two groups, one represented by two of the best of them, the other by that of Petrus Pithoeus, so important for the text of Juvenal.

His lost Ars ( Juvenal 7. 215 ), a system of grammar much used in his own time and largely drawn upon by later grammarians, contained rules for correct diction, illustrative quotations and discussed barbarisms and solecisms ( Juvenal 6. 452 ).

He was ordained deacon by Juvenal of Jerusalem on his visit to the Laura of Euthymus in 429 AD.

The second half of the book also shows Lowell returning once again to writing loose translations ( including verse approximations of Dante, Juvenal, and Horace ).

The Roman poet Juvenal, writing in the early 2nd century, depicts a Roman father urging his son to win glory by destroying the forts of the Brigantes.

They were built in timber, mud brick, and later primitive concrete, and were prone to fire and collapse, as described by Juvenal, whose satiric purpose in writing should be taken into account.

Juvenal is thought to extensively lampoon Statius ' type of court poetry in his fourth satire on the turbot of Domitian, but he also mentions the immense popularity of Statius ' recitations in Satire 7. 82ff.

A shadowy historical Arviragus is known only from a cryptic reference in a satirical poem by Juvenal, in which a giant turbot presented to the Roman emperor Domitian ( AD 81 – 96 ) is said to be an omen that " you will capture some king, or Arviragus will fall from his British chariot-pole ".

The ' monster ' to which Juvenal makes Veiento refer was a turbot of unusual size.

The 2nd century Roman poet Juvenal, who may have served in Britain under Agricola, wrote in Satires that " arms had been taken beyond the shores of Ireland ", and the coincidence of dates is striking.

" British author Thomas Hughes referred to Lowell as one of the most important writers in the United States: " Greece had her Aristophanes ; Rome her Juvenal ; Spain has had her Cervantes ; France her Rabelais, her Molière, her Voltaire ; Germany her Jean Paul, her Heine ; England her Swift, her Thackeray ; and America has her Lowell.

Alternatively, the name may have been derived from the Roman poet Juvenal, who was thought also to have had the nomen Junius.

Gay adapted Juvenal, as Pope had already adapted Virgil's Eclogues, and throughout the Augustan era the " updating " of Classical poets was a commonplace.

Already while at Oxford, he had begun work on his translation of Juvenal.

Juvenal was not criticizing the by-gone Republic that Caesar had helped to destroy but rather the Empire, the system in fact inaugurated by Caesar.

In May John Oldham, in his ‘ Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal ,’ had ridiculed Pordage, and in another ‘ Satire ’ mentioned Pordage among the authors who had ‘ grown contemptible, and slighted since .’ Besides the pieces already mentioned, Pordage is stated to have written a romance called ‘ Eliana .’

The 2nd century Roman poet Juvenal, who may have served in Britain under Agricola, wrote that " arms had been taken beyond the shores of Ireland ", and the coincidence of dates is striking.

# Martial and Juvenal have many references to eunuchism and the use to which the Roman ladies put these castratos, who were of various kinds: castrati ( castare, meaning to cut oft )-- those who had lost both penis and testicles ; spadones ( either spata, a Gallic word meaning a razor, or Spada, a Persian village where the operation of eunuchism is performed )-- those who still retained the penis ; thlibiae ( from the Greek meaning to rub with hemlock, etc.

The Juvenalorden, or " Juvenal Order ", of 1907 was founded on the initiative of then student, later clergyman August Lindh, remembered for his widespread Swedish translation of the German student song O alte Burschenherrlichkeit ( in Swedish: Gamla klang-och jubeltid ), and with a tenuous connection to the original society in the form of the aging physician M. Aspelin, who had during his student days in Uppsala been introduced into the Juvenals by its principal figure, the poet and composer Gunnar Wennerberg ( 1817-1901 ) himself.

By 431, as a deacon, he occupied a sufficiently important position for Cyril of Alexandria to apply to him in order that Rome's influence should be thrown against the claims of Juvenal of Jerusalem to patriarchal jurisdiction over Palestine — unless this letter is addressed rather to Pope Celestine I.

The sign for Gus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call's Hat Creek Cattle Company includes a Latin motto, " Uva Uvam Vivendo Varia Fit ," which appears to be a reference to a proverb first attributed to Juvenal.

Simón Trinidad ( born July 30, 1950 ) is the alias of Juvenal Ovidio Ricardo Palmera Pineda, a high-ranking member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC ), and reputedly the first high-ranking member of that guerrilla group to be captured.

The story, with small variations, can be found in the writings of Juvenal, Aelius Aristides, Themistius, Platonios, John Tzetzes and the Anonymus Crameri.

She is not mentioned in authentic Roman history ; her supposed husband Arvirargus is known only from a cryptic reference in a 2nd century satirical poem by Juvenal ; and it is in any case inconceivable that a daughter, even an illegitimate daughter, of a Roman emperor could be given in marriage to a barbarian without attracting comment.

Early reference to the Turbot can be found in a satirical poem ( The Emperor's Fish ) by Juvenal, a Roman poet of the late 1st and early 2nd centuries A. D., suggesting this fish was a delicacy in the Roman empire.

According to the account, Juvenal replied that, on the third day after her burial, Mary's tomb was discovered to be empty, only her shroud being preserved in the church of Gethsemane.

Juvenal was concerned with the morality and actions of the Roman elite ; Satire VI can equally be read as an invective against the men who have permitted this pervasive degradation of the Roman world.

A strong condemnation against female gladiators of the Flavian and Trajanic eras can be found in the Satire VI of Juvenal, decrying the fact female gladiators were typically from upper-class families and seeking thrill and attention.