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'''Decimus Junius Juvenalis''' -- generally known as Juvenal -- was a Roman satirist who lived in the first and second centuries AD -- roughly from the time of Nero to the time of Hadrian. He's perhaps best known as the originator of the phrases, "Who will watch the watchmen?"<ref>''Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?''</ref> and "bread and circuses."<ref> ''panem et circenses''</ref> He lends his name to the brand of satire known as [[Captain Obvious|Juvenalian]], which consists of scathing attacks on people and things the writer considers to be evil.
His [[Satire|satires]] are written from the point of a financially distressed member of the upper classes -- the kind that in Victorian England would have been called "shabby genteel" (or in other words, a literal [[Impoverished Patrician]]). The narrator saves his bitterest vile for the upstarts, ex-slaves, and foreigners who dominated early Imperial times, but he spears almost everyone and everything: [[Stay in
One previously unknown section of Juvenal's Sixth Satire - the one about women - was discovered in 1905. The section contained such sophisticated obscenity that only one man in the UK was considered erudite enough to translate it.
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