tius potest: Can any one display more fortitude? 24. Ducenties: lit.
20,000,000 sesterces, here of indefinite value.

_13._ Martial at the tomb which has just received Erotion's ashes
appeals to his dead parents to keep the child from fear at sight of the
'black spectres' and monstrous Cerberus. 2. oscula: in apposition to
puellam. 5. modo:, just. In six days she would have been six years old.
7. patronos: protectors, i.e. Fronto and Flacilla. 9, 10. nec...fueris:
sit tibi terra levis, of ten found as S. T. T. L., is a phrase common
upon Roman tombstones.

In another epigram (10. 61), a translation of which by Leigh Hunt
follows, the poet, about to depart finally from the estate where Erotion
is buried, thus beautifully commends to his successors the care of her
tomb:

Underneath this greedy stone
Lies little sweet Erotion;
Whom the Fates, with hearts as cold,
Nipped away at six years old.
Thou, whoever thou mayest be,
That hast this small field after me,
Let the yearly rites be paid
To her little slender shade;
So shall no disease or jar
Hurt thy house or chill thy Lar;
But this tomb be here alone
The only melancholy stone.

X. JUVENAL.

About 55-138 A.D.

Facunde Iuvenalis.--Martial, 7. 91. 1.

Irati histrionis exsul.--Sidouius Apollinaris, _Carmen_ 9. 273.

Quidquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, gaudia, discursus,
nostri est farrago libelli.--_Satira_ 1. 85-86.

Facit indignatio versum.--_Satira_ 1. 79.

Satire appears to have originated in impromptu dramatic performances. It
was looked upon by the Romans as a purely native product. Quintilian
says of it (10. 1. 93) satura quidem tota nostra eat. The word seems to
be connected with the adjective satur, the distinctive mark of the
earlier satire being fulness and variety. As lanx satura is a dish
filled with various kinds of fruit, so satire in this earlier sense is a
poem which may deal with any subject and employ several measures and
languages. With Lucilius, satire, while retaining its dramatic and
discursive character, became didactic as well, and thus the word assumed
its modern signification.

The principal names in the history of Roman satire are Ennius (239-160
B.C.), Lucilius (148-103 B.C.), Varro (116-27 B.C.), Horace (65-8 B.C.),
Persius (34-62 A.D.), Seneca the Younger (3 B.C.-65 A.D.), Petronius
(flourished about 60 A.D.), and Juvenal.

Juvenal was born at Aquinum in Latium and was the son or