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Decimus Junius Juvenalis

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Italy

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male

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Poetry, Satire

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Date of Birth: ca. 55 A.D.
Date of Death: ca. 138 A.D.

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Latin spelling), known commonly by the shortened Anglicized version of his name "Juvenal", was a Roman poet of the late first and early second centuries AD/CE. He is the author of The Satires, a series of sixteen short poems in dactylic hexameter on a variety of subjects.

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Average rating: 3.92 · 384 ratings · 28 reviews · 57 distinct works

	The Sixteen Satires by Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Peter Green (Translator), Wendell Vernon Clausen (Editor) 3.93 avg rating — 366 ratings — published 1967 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Juvenal: Satires Book I 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1996	My rating:
	The Satires of Juvenal by Decimus Junius Juvenalis Juvenal, Rolfe Humphries (Translator) 3.85 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1958 — 26 editions	My rating:
	Contro le donne by Decimo Giunio Giovenale, Cesare Vivaldi (Translator) 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	My rating:
	D. Junii Juvenalis Satir Expurgat: Accedunt Not Anglic. in Usum Schol Bostoniensis by Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Frederick Percival Leverett 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Satires de D. J. Juvnal, Volume 3 by Decimus Junius Juvenalis, A. V. D. P. Fabre De Narbonne (Creator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Satires de D. J. Juvnal, Volume 2 by Decimus Junius Juvenalis, A. V. D. P. Fabre De Narbonne (Creator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Satires: With the Satires of Persius (Everyman's Library by Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Richard Stoneman, Decimus Junius Juvenalis 4.21 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1918 — 21 editions	My rating:
	Juvenal, Persius, Martial, and Catullus (V. 35); An Experiment in Translation, by W.F. Shaw 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	A new and literal translation of Juvenal and Persius: with copious explanatory notes by which these difficult satirists are rendered easy and familiar to the reader 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?”
― Decimus Junius Juvenalis

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“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who watches the watchmen?)”
― Decimus Junius Juvenalis

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“Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.”
― Decimus Junius Juvenalis, The Satires

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