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Juvenal, the Glossary

Decimus Junius Juvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD.^[1]

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1st-century poets
2nd-century writers in Latin
Ancient Roman satirists
Ancient Roman writers
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People from the Province of Frosinone
Silver Age Latin writers

Alexander Theroux

Alexander Louis Theroux (born 1939) is an American novelist and poet.

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Amy Richlin

Amy Ellen Richlin (born December 12, 1951) is a professor in the Department of Classics at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).

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Ancient Rome

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

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Anno Domini

The terms anno Domini. (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used when designating years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.

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Aquino, Italy

Aquino is a town and comune in the province of Frosinone, in the Lazio region of Italy, northwest of Cassino.

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The black swan theory or theory of black swan events is a metaphor that describes an event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect, and is often inappropriately rationalized after the fact with the benefit of hindsight.

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Book frontispiece

A frontispiece in books is a decorative or informative illustration facing a book's title page, usually on the left-hand, or verso, page opposite the right-hand, or recto page of a book.

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Bread and circuses

"Bread and circuses" (or bread and games; from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metonymic phrase referring to superficial appeasement.

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Catullus

Gaius Valerius Catullus (84 – 54 BC), known as Catullus, was a Latin neoteric poet of the late Roman Republic.

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Ceres (mythology)

In ancient Roman religion, Ceres was a goddess of agriculture, grain crops, fertility and motherly relationships.

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Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, writer and Academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire.

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Dactylic hexameter

Dactylic hexameter (also known as heroic hexameter and the meter of epic) is a form of meter or rhythmic scheme frequently used in Ancient Greek and Latin poetry.

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Detective fiction

Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder.

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Deucalion

In Greek mythology, Deucalion (Δευκαλίων) was the son of Prometheus; ancient sources name his mother as Clymene, Hesione, or Pronoia.

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Domitian

Domitian (Domitianus; 24 October 51 – 18 September 96) was Roman emperor from 81 to 96.

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Duumviri

The duumviri (Latin for 'two men'), originally duoviri and also known in English as the duumvirs, were any of various joint magistrates of ancient Rome.

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Family patrimony

Family patrimony is a type of civil law patrimony that is created by marriage or civil union (where recognized) which creates a bundle of entitlements and obligations that must be shared by the spouses or partners upon divorce, annulment, dissolution of marriage or dissolution of civil union, when there must be a division of property.

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Freedman

A freedman or freedwoman is a person who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means.

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Gaius Lucilius

Gaius Lucilius (180, 168 or 148 BC – 103 BC) was the earliest Roman satirist, of whose writings only fragments remain. Juvenal and Gaius Lucilius are ancient Roman satirists.

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German Romanticism

German Romanticism was the dominant intellectual movement of German-speaking countries in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, influencing philosophy, aesthetics, literature, and criticism.

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Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Arthur Highet (June 22, 1906 – January 20, 1978) was a Scottish American classicist, academic writer, intellectual critic, and literary historian.

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Glossarium Eroticum

is a Latin-language dictionary of sexual words and phrases, and of many pertaining to the human body or considered to be obscene, by Pierre-Emmanuel Pierrugues, published in 1826.

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Hadrian

Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrianus; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. Juvenal and Hadrian are 1st-century Romans.

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Heinrich Böll

Heinrich Theodor Böll (21 December 1917 – 16 July 1985) was a German writer.

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Hipponax

Hipponax (Ἱππῶναξ; gen. Ἱππώνακτος), of Ephesus and later Clazomenae, was an Ancient Greek iambic poet who composed verses depicting the vulgar side of life in Ionian society.

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Histeridae

Histeridae is a family of beetles commonly known as clown beetles or hister beetles.

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Horace

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC),Suetonius,. commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."Quintilian 10.1.96. Juvenal and Horace are ancient Roman satirists.

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John Dryden

John Dryden (–) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who in 1668 was appointed England's first Poet Laureate.

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Judaism

Judaism (יַהֲדוּת|translit.

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Julio-Claudian dynasty

The Julio-Claudian dynasty comprised the first five Roman emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero.

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Junia gens

The gens Junia or Iunia was one of the most celebrated families of ancient Rome. Juvenal and Junia gens are Junii.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Latin Library

The Latin Library is a website that collects public domain Latin texts.

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London (Samuel Johnson poem)

London is a poem by Samuel Johnson, produced shortly after he moved to London.

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Martial

Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial; March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman poet born in Hispania (modern Spain) best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan. Juvenal and Martial are 1st-century Romans, 1st-century births, 2nd-century Romans, ancient Roman satirists and Silver Age Latin writers.

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Mens sana in corpore sano

() is a Latin phrase, usually translated as "a healthy mind in a healthy body".

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Nerva

Nerva (born Marcus Cocceius Nerva; 8 November 30 – 27 January 98) was a Roman emperor from 96 to 98.

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Niall Rudd

William James Niall Rudd (23 June 1927 – 5 October 2015) was an Irish-born British classical scholar.

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Persius

Aulus Persius Flaccus (4 December 3424 November 62 AD) was a Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin. Juvenal and Persius are 1st-century Romans, ancient Roman satirists and Silver Age Latin writers.

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Peter Green (historian)

Peter Morris Green (born 22 December 1924), Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series.

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Petronius

Gaius Petronius Arbiter. Juvenal and Petronius are 1st-century Romans, ancient Roman satirists and Silver Age Latin writers.

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Poet

A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry.

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Praetorian Guard

The Praetorian Guard (Latin: cohortes praetoriae) was an elite unit of the Imperial Roman army that served as personal bodyguards and intelligence agents for the Roman emperors.

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Pyrrha

In Greek mythology, Pyrrha (Pýrrha) was the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora and wife of Deucalion of whom she had three sons, Hellen, Amphictyon, Orestheus; and three daughters Protogeneia, Pandora II and Thyia.

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Quintilian

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (35 – 100 AD) was a Roman educator and rhetorician born in Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing. Juvenal and Quintilian are 1st-century Romans, ancient Roman writers and Silver Age Latin writers.

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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? is a Latin phrase found in the Satires (Satire VI, lines 347–348), a work of the 1st–2nd century Roman poet Juvenal.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.

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Roman imperial cult

The Roman imperial cult (cultus imperatorius) identified emperors and some members of their families with the divinely sanctioned authority (auctoritas) of the Roman State.

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Roman Republic

The Roman Republic (Res publica Romana) was the era of classical Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom (traditionally dated to 509 BC) and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire following the War of Actium.

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Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson (– 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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Satire VI

Satire VI is the most famous of the sixteen Satires by the Roman author Juvenal written in the late 1st or early 2nd century.

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Satires (Juvenal)

The Satires are a collection of satirical poems by the Latin author Juvenal written between the end of the first and the early second centuries A.D. Juvenal is credited with sixteen poems divided among five books; all are in the Roman genre of satire. The genre is defined by a wide-ranging discussion of society and social mores in dactylic hexameter.

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Scriptorium

A scriptorium was a writing room in medieval European monasteries for the copying and illuminating of manuscripts by scribes.

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A scroll (from the Old French escroe or escroue), also known as a roll, is a roll of papyrus, parchment, or paper containing writing.

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Statius

Publius Papinius Statius (Greek: Πόπλιος Παπίνιος Στάτιος) was a Latin poet of the 1st century CE. Juvenal and Statius are Silver Age Latin writers.

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Suetonius

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly referred to as Suetonius (– after AD 122), was a Roman historian who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire. Juvenal and Suetonius are 1st-century Romans, 2nd-century Romans, 2nd-century deaths and Silver Age Latin writers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juvenal

Also known as Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Iuvenal, Iuvenalis, Juvenalian, Juvenalis, Luvenalis.

, Samuel Johnson, Satire, Satire VI, Satires (Juvenal), Scriptorium, Scroll, Statius, Suetonius, Terminus post quem, The Vanity of Human Wishes, Trajan, Vespasian, Volsci, World War II.

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See also

1st-century poets

2nd-century writers in Latin

Ancient Roman satirists

Ancient Roman writers

Junii

People from the Province of Frosinone

Silver Age Latin writers

References