BY WHICH THESE DIFFICULT SATIRISTS ARE RENDERED AND SOLD AT T. BECKET's, BOOKSELLER TO HIS M. DCC. LXXXIX. 010-23-30 6-25-30 amcles Foot PRE FAC D ΤΟ JUVENAL. E ECIMUS Junius Juvenal was born at Aquinum, a town of the Volfci, a people of Latium: bence, from the place of his birth, he was called Aquihas. It is not certain whether he was the fon, or fofter-child, of a rich freedman. He had a learned education, and, in the time of Claudius Nero, pleaded caufes with great reputation. About his middle age be applied himself to the study of Poetry; and, as he faw a daily increafe of vice and folly, be addicted himfelf to writing Satire: but, having faid fomething (Sat. vii. 1. 88-92.) which was deemed a reflection on Paris the actor, a minion of Domitian's, he was banifhed into Egypt, at eighty years of age, under pretence of fending him as captain of a company of foldiers. This was looked upon as a fort of humorous punishment for what he had faid, in making Paris the * beftower of posts in the army. However, Domitian dying very foon after, Juvenal returned to Rome, and is faid to have lived there to Quanquam Octogenarius.-MARSHALL, in Vit. Juv. VOL. I. 2 the |