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CAMBRIDGE
GREEK
GENERAL E.
J.
AND LATIN
CLASSICS
EDITORS KENNEY
EmeritusKennedyProfessorof Latin, Universityof Cambridge AND
P. E. EASTERLING Regius Professorof Greek, Universityof Cambridge
JUVENAL
SATIRES BOOK I EDITED
SUSANNA
BY
MORTON
BRAUND
ProfessorefLatin, Royal Holloway, UniversityefLondon
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Published by the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RP 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Melbourne 3166, Australia
© Cambridge
University Press 1996
First published 1996 Printed in Great Britain at the University Press, Cambridge
A cataloguerecordfor this bookis availablefrom the British Library Libraryof Congresscataloguingin publicationdata Juvenal. [Saturae. Liber 1] Satires /Juvenal; Susanna Morton Braund. p. cm. - (Cambridge Greek and Latin classics) Text in Latin with pref., introd., and commentary in English. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN o 521 35566 4 (hardback) - ISBN o 521 35667 9 (paperback) 1. Verse satire, Latin. 2. Rome-Poetry. 1. Braund, Susanna Morton. 11. Title. 111. Series. PA6446.A6I 1996 871'.01-dc20 95·1 l014 CIP ISBNo 521 35566 4 hardback ISBNo 52 1 35667 9 paperback
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CONTENTS Preface
page
Introduction
Vil I
1
Juvenal and satire
I
2
The genreefRoman versesatire
I
3 The originsof Roman satire
3
4 Juvenal's satiricpredecessors
(a) Lucilius
7 8
(b) Horace
10
(c) Persius
13
5 Juvenal's life
15
6 The characteristics efJuvenal's satire: indignation,
rhetoricand epic
17
(a) Indignation (b) Rhetoric
17 18
(c) Epic
21
7 Juvenal's style
24
8 Juvenal's metre
29
9 An overviewefBook I
30
(a) Rome
31
(b) Patronsand clients
32
(c) A day in the life?
34
(d) Corruptionat the core
34
(e) Running awayfrom the city
35
(j) Immigrantstake over (g) The power effood
35 36
(h) Satire 1 as programmepoem of Book I
36
V
CONTENTS
VI
1o
Juvenal and his influence from antiquityto thepresent
36
11
Text and manuscripts
38
D. IVNII IVVENALIS SATVRARVM LIBER PRIMVS
43
Commentary
75
Bibliography
309
Index
319
PREFACE 'Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.' Thus Swift, in his Preface to The Battle