Juvenal : Decimus Junius Juvenalis (b. AD 55), powerful of Roman satiric poet.
... the vilest punishment, Cicero called it (Verrines 5.66); the ultimate penalty, Apullius called it (The Golden Ass 10); the penalty of slaves it was commonly called (Tacitus, Histories 4.11; Juvenal 6.218; Horace, Satires, 1.3.8). It was a punishment which could only be inflicted on slaves and non-citizens." The pagans would see nothing save "madness" in Paul's preaching about a God-man hung... accepting death, death on a cross." 229 Keeping before us the word "slave" and the phrase "death on a cross" we cannot help remembering that crucifixion was commonly called by Tacitus, Juvenal and Horace "the penalty of slaves". How could one who would assume the condition of a slave as the utter opposite of his equality with God be conceived by Paul as escaping a slave's fate after being ...
... playful and purposive character while the didactive element became dominant in the philosophical satires of Persius. The rhetorical satire attained its apogee in the hands of the tragic satirist Juvenal. Martial excelled with his epigrammatic satires. Then came Petronius and Apuleius who liberated satire from the constraints of metre and ushered in the age of satirical romance. It was Western... century, who have produced pure satire in their own individual ways. 3 This is how Sri Aurobindo has commented on a few of the great names occurring in the field of satire: "It is Dryden and Juvenal who have oftenest made something like genuine poetry out of satire, the first because he often changes satire into a vision of character and the play of psychological forces, the other because he writes ...
... rhythm that was so great, so beautiful or, at the lowest, so strong or so happy in the ancient tongues, the hexameter of Homer and Virgil, the hexameter of Theocritus, the hexameter of Horace and Juvenal becomes in their hands something poor, uncertain of itself and defective. There is here the waddle and squawk of a big water-fowl, not the flight and challenge of the eagle. Longfellow was an admirable ...
... was largely mental and moral, the emotion though very strong being too much intellectualised in expression to give the poetic intensity of speech and movement. Indignation, the saeva indignatio of Juvenal, can produce poetry, but it must be either vividly a vital revolt which stirs the whole feeling into a white heat of self-expression—as in Milton's famous sonnet—or a high spiritual or deep psychic ...
... 404 that Hamlet is the best of Shakespeare's plays. After this the subject was closed. Every clergyman in America knows why Rome fell: it was owing to the corruption of morals depicted by Juvenal and Petronius. The fact that morals became exemplary about two centuries before the fall of the Western Empire is unknown or ignored. English children are taught one view of the French Revolution, ...
... own kind, of such a divine equality? Satirical poetry, for instance, has often been considered as inferior in essential quality to the epic or other higher kinds of creation. Can the best lines of Juvenal, for instance, the line about the graeculus esuriens be the equal of Virgil's O passi graviora, or his sunt lacrimae rerum ? Can Pope's attack on Addison, impeccable in expression and unsurpassable ...
... creative vision or a moved intensity of poetic feeling. Creative vision or the moved intensity can come in to lift this motive but, except rarely, it does not lift it very high. It is Dryden and Juvenal who have oftenest made some thing like genuine poetry out of satire, the first because he often changes satire into a vision of character and the play of psychological forces, the other because he ...
... of Comus and Lycidas could not plunge into the m ê l é e of vituperation without doing something that went against his poetic grain. Not that the poet in him ran contrary to the temper of a Juvenal: savage indignation could find a natural tongue in him, as in the condemnatory passage in Lycidas about the unscrupulous pastors, the "blind mouths" that eat up instead of feeding their flock. But ...
... Mr Philosopher, I'm sorry they've hurt you. PHILOSOPHER. It is nothing. A philosopher learns how to take things as they come and I will get my own back on them with a satire in the manner of Juvenal. I'll fairly tear them to pieces. Let us think no more of it. What would you like to learn? MR JOURDAIN. Whatever I can, for I want, above all things, to become a scholar. I blame my father and ...
... wrote it." "Well, well, it may be so - I'll not dispute it, as you seem to be so very serious about it, but at all events, the lines you quoted are Latin, not Greek — they are undoubtedly Juvenal's." "Perhaps, my lord, he quotes them from the 'Phantasmagoria'." "Tut, tut, man; I tell you they're Latin - they are just as familiar to me as my Blackstone." "Indeed, my good lord ...
Share your feedback. Help us improve. Or ask a question.