• Satire VI is the most famous[according to whom?] of the sixteen Satires by the Roman author Juvenal written in the late 1st or early 2nd century. In English...
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    the collection. Book I: Satires 1–5 Book II: Satire 6 Book III: Satires 7–9 Book IV: Satires 10–12 Book V: Satires 13–16 (Satire 16 is incompletely preserved)...
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  • Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? is a Latin phrase found in the Satires (Satire VI, lines 347–348), a work of the 1st–2nd century Roman poet Juvenal. It...
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    is from the 2nd-century Roman poet Juvenal's characterization in his Satire VI of something being "rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cygno" ("a...
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    Literature portal Glossarium Eroticum Junia (gens) Panem et circenses Satires (Juvenal) Satire VI Uden, J. The Invisible Satirist: Juvenal and Second-Century Rome...
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    mothers-in-law. There is evidence that this joke dates back to Roman times: Satire VI by Juvenal says that one cannot be happy while one's mother-in-law is...
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    Juvenal and Perseus: Satires. Loeb Classical Library. Online versions of Satire II Archived 2010-08-19 at the Wayback Machine and Satire VI Archived 2008-05-11...
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    Online translation, X ch.83 Satire X, translated by A. S. Kline, lines 329–336 "Juvenal (55–140) – The Satires: Satire VI". poetryintranslation.com. Gilmore...
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  • Campion 2008, pp. 227–228. Parker & Parker 1983, p. 16. Juvenal (c. 100). Satire VI: The Ways of Women . Translated by Ramsay, George Gilbert. G. P. Putnam's...
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  • satire[according to whom?] of the broad use of this progression in contemporary commercial music. I–V–♭VII–IV may be viewed as a variation of I–V–vi–IV...
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    mentioned that "Canopus does not keep any man from living simply". Juvenal's Satire VI referred to the "debauchery" that prevailed there. The emperor Hadrian...
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    himself how to open his case, and how to urge his points. — Juvenal, Satire VI Although the rights and status of women in the earliest period of Roman...
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  • Rara Avis, a 1985 documentary about Bridget Bate Tichenor Black swan Satire VI by Juvenal, containing the line: rara avis in terris nigroque simillima...
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    "The Life of Caligula", 25. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 23. Juvenal, Satires VI.615-20 Cassius Dio, Roman History, 28. Suetonius, The Lives of Twelve...
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  • and Petrarch's Triumph of Chastity in Triumphs. However, in Juvenal's Satire VI (famously renamed 'Against Women') he references her as one of many lascivious...
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  • speeches condemning marriage borrow from Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Juvenal's Satire VI. John Aubrey's claim that Morose was modelled on Elizabethan businessman...
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    p. 24. Seneca, Controv. lib. i, 2. Petronius 2009, chap. 7. Juvenal, Satire vi, 121 et seq. McGinn 1998, pp. 293, 316. McGinn, 1998, pp.293 – 295, 316...
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    Messalina's participation in prostitution, as criticised in Juvenal's Satire VI. Referring to other Renaissance and classical tropes in the depiction...
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    Josephus, Ant 18, 159-160 Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews XX.5.2 Juvenal, Satires vi. 156 Suetonius, Titus 7 Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews XVIII.5.4 Ciecieląg...
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    cygno ("a rare bird in the lands, and very like a black swan") Juvenal, Satires, VI BirdLife International (2018). "Cygnus atratus". IUCN Red List of Threatened...
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  • bird (very rare bird) An extraordinary or unusual thing. From Juvenal's Satires VI: rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cygno ("a rare bird in the lands...
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  • Deucalione from or since Deucalion A long time ago; from Gaius Lucilius, Satires VI, 284 a falsis principiis proficisci to set forth from false principles...
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  • Deucalione from or since Deucalion A long time ago; from Gaius Lucilius, Satires VI, 284 a falsis principiis proficisci to set forth from false principles...
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    II, § XI, 6, (218s). Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews XX.5.2 Juvenal, Satires vi. 156 Suetonius, Titus 7. Ciecieląg Jerzy, Polityczne dziedzictwo Heroda...
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    of the Jews XX.5.2 Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews XX.7.3 Juvenal, Satires VI Macurdy, Grace H. (1935). "Julia Berenice". The American Journal of Philology...
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    kept it. Other title variations include subtitles like "A Satire" and "A Contemporary Satire". Orwell suggested the title Union des républiques socialistes...
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  • keeper / came out, dismissed his girls" is a paraphrase of a sentence in Satire VI ("Later, when the pimp was already dismissing his girls...") by the Ancient...
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    animated both the poets had once belonged to a peacock. Persius in his satires (vi. 9) laughs at this; it is referred to also by Lucretius and Horace. Virgil...
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    own violent death, in response to his assassination. The poem Satires; Book I, Satire 7 by Horace, written approximately 30 BC, mentions Brutus and his...
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    Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 to 6 February 1952 as the wife of King George VI. She was also the last Empress of India from 1936 until the British Raj was...
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