Persius

‘Romeinen imiteren de Grieken, maar de satire is van ons,’ zei in de oudheid een professor in de retorica. Het sarcastische hekeldicht werd inderdaad

This classic edition, reissued here, was based on lectures delivered by John Connington during his tenure of the chair of Latin at Oxford in the middl

"This translation of The satires of Horace and Persius first published 1973; revised edition, with Horace's Epistles, published 1979; reprinted with r

Bite and wit characterize two seminal and stellar authors in the history of satirical writing, Persius (34-62 CE) and Juvenal (writing about sixty yea