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THE SATIRES

OF

JUVENAL AND PERSIUS.

WITH

ENGLISH NOTES,

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY,

FROM THE BEST COMMENTATORS.

BY

CHARLES ANTHON, LL.D.,

PROFESSOR OF THE GREEK AND LATIN LANGUAGES IN COLUMBIA COLLEGE,
NEW YORK, AND RECTOR OF THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

FRANKLIN SQUARE.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand

eight hundred and fifty-seven, by

HARPER & BROTHERS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.

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TO WM. HAWKESWORTH, ESQ.,

PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT LANGUAGES IN CHARLESTON COLLEGE, S.C.

MY DEAR PROFESSOR,

Allow me to dedicate this volume to you as a memorial not only of long-standing friendship, but also of sincere admiration for the noblest personal qualities, as well as for sound and unostentatious scholarship. You know very well that I would never have undertaken the work had it not been for your repeated solicitations; and if the result of my labours should now, in any way, disappoint your expectation, you will have only yourself to blame. I have endeavoured, as I promised you, to make a useful Variorum edition, and have, with that view, selected my materials from the best commentators, laying under contribution each and every one of them, whenever I found any thing that might tend to elucidate your favourite satirist. The only merit to which I can fairly lay claim, on my own account, is that of selection and arrangement, as well as an occasional balancing of authorities. In the text I have generally taken Jahn for my guide, and have also unsparingly removed whatever might tend to make Juvenal less readable in a lecture-room. On this point some

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may, perhaps, think that I have gone too far. But my own experience as an instructor is entirely in favour of the plan which I have adopted, and I am very

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sure that your opinion will coincide in this respect with my own.

Among the sources from which excellent materials have been obtained for the commentary, I may particularly mention the edition of Mayor, published in 1853, and also the German one of Heinrich. The English version by Evans has likewise been of great Malanservice, and even old Madan, though it is the fashion to decry him, has been found by me, on many occasions, a very useful companion, especially in his explanatory remarks. The American student has already been made acquainted with the notes of Madan by means of Leverett's Juvenal, to which edition they are appended in an abridged form. I have used them, however, much more sparingly than Leverett, and have never adopted any unless supported by other authorities.

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With regard to Persius, you may remember that I intended to edit his Satires along with those of Juvenal until you dissuaded me from the attempt. I have therefore contented myself with merely giving the Latin text, unaccompanied by a single word of comment. This part of the volume, I am very sure, will meet with the undivided approbation of those critical friends of mine, who have uniformly condemned my commentaries as exuberant, if not useless, and over whose fairness and acumen you and I have had many a pleasant chat.

It only remains for me to subscribe myself, my dear Professor, your old and sincere friend,

COL. COLLEGE, March 30th, 1857.

C. A.

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