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Juvenal, Satire 1.155—7

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Anthony A. Barrett
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia

Extract

These lines, presented as they appear in the O.C.T., are among the most difficult and hotly disputed that Juvenal wrote. The poet defends his decision not to attack contemporary politicians directly: ‘expose a Tigellinus’, he says, ‘and you know what the consequences will be’. It has long been recognized that the consequences related are probably inspired by those suffered by the Christians in A.D. 64 during the reign of Nero, and so vividly described by Tacitus.

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Copyright © The Classical Association 1977

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