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Juvenal and Persius

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Juvenal and Persius are seminal as well as stellar figures in the history of satirical writing. Juvenal especially had a lasting influence on English writers of the Renaissance and succeeding centuries. The bite and wit of these two satirists are captured here in a new Loeb Classical Library edition.

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