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JUVENAL! 

With an Appendix, containing Imitations of the Third and Tenth Satires by Dr. Samuel Johnson. 

To which are added The Satires of Persius. 

Translated by Charles Badham, M.D., F.R.S. 

Printed in 1837!!

Bound in leather. 

Gilded lettering on spine. 

6 inches tall. Complete in one volume. Harper & Brothers, New York. 1837. 

VERY GOOD condition. Near FINE internally. Hinge starting at top of front board but held firmly. Some general rubbing. Some foxing. Printed on quality paper. Very tight text-block. No writing. Small owner's stamp on later blank end-paper and contents page.

Includes a frontis protected by tissue, a preface to the second edition and a biographical sketch of Juvenal. A beautiful collection of the early Roman poet's work.

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD, author of the Satires.

In accord with the vitriolic manner of Lucilius - the originator of the genre of Roman satire - and within a poetic tradition that also included Horace and Persius, Juvenal wrote at least 16 poems in dactylic hexameter covering an encyclopedic range of topics across the Roman world. While the Satires are a vital source for the study of ancient Rome from a vast number of perspectives, their hyperbolic, comedic mode of expression makes the use of statements found within them as simple fact problematic, to say the least. At first glance the Satires could be read as a brutal critique of (Pagan) Rome, perhaps ensuring their survival in Christian monastic scriptoria, a bottleneck in preservation when the large majority of ancient texts were lost.

Persius, in full: Aulus Persius Flaccus (Volterra, 34-62), was a Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin. In his works, poems and satires, he shows a stoic wisdom and a strong criticism for the abuses of his contemporaries.

A charming book.