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Juvenal

(c. 60—130 ad)


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(c. 60–c. 140),

Roman satirist. His sixteen verse satires present a savage attack on the vice and folly of Roman society, chiefly in the reign of the emperor Domitian.

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Juvenal (fl.ad 100)
in The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7) Length: 188 words
Juvenal
in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2) Length: 56 words
Juvenal (c.55)
in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome Length: 1272 words
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