Juvenal: Satires Book I 0521356679, 9780521356671

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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