SOLD BY BALDWIN AND CO.; G. B. WHITTAKER; AND ALL OTHER BOOKSELLERS. 1825. PREFACE. THE Satires omitted in the following selection, are the second, sixth, and ninth. The rest are printed in a form strictly expurgate. The divisions of the Satires, and general arrangement of the text, are from Owen. The other editions, from whence notes have been borrowed, (marked with their several initials,) are those of Achaintre, Dusaulx, Gifford, Madan, Marshall, Prateus the Delphin editor, Ruperti, Valpy, the Variorum, (i. e. Britannicus, Farnabius, and Lubinus,) and Wilson. The object of this publication is to render the study of a most valuable author at once easy and interesting to the youthful scholar. While editions intended for the use of the mature student, leave no point of mythology, history, or geography, unexplained; why should those which are drawn up for the young, be purposely sparing of explanation?-Is it not better, to supply exactly the portion of information that may be requisite on particular passages, than to turn the scholar loose into the wide field of a Classical Dictionary; where his attention may be distracted by subjects foreign to the purpose, and not always the most improving ? Should this volume ever find its way into other hands, than those for whom it was originally compiled, it would deprecate the severity of criticism, in the words of the Parisian Editor: Quæ bona sunt, candide Lector, iis fruere; quæ mediocria, aut tibi inutilia, prætermitte; quæ denique mendosa et mala tibi videbuntur, humanæ imbecillitati benigniùs ignosce. I Achaintre. A SHORT CHRONOLOGY " ADAPTED TO THE WRITINGS OF JUVENAL, BEGINNING WITH THE YEAR 14. OF THE CHRISTIAN ÆRA. A. D. 14. TIBERIUS. Emperor of Rome. 26. Tiberius retires to the isle of Capri, and commits the management of public affairs to Sejanus. Sat. x. 90-95. 31. Sejanus disgraced and executed. Sat. x. 56 et seqq. 37. CALIGULA. Emperor. 41. CLAUDIUS. Do. 48. Messalina, the wife of Claudius, publicly marries the beautiful C. Silius; for which they are both executed. Sat. x. 301-317. At this time, Pallas (mentioned Sat. i. 101.) and 52. Claudius marries Agrippina, the mother of Nero. 54. Claudius poisoned by Agrippina in his favourite "We know little more of Juvenal, (says Owen,) than that he lived and died. Instead, therefore, of attempting an account of his life, it was thought more expedient to exhibit a short System of Chronology adapted to his writings." |