Decii Junii Juvenalis (1754)

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Item:: 18^th Century Book
Title:: Decii Junii Juvenalis Satirarum Libri Quinque. Ex Recognitione, Steph. And. Philippe.
Author:: Decimus Junius Juvenalis (Juvenal); Aulus Persius Flaccus
Editor:: Steph. And. Philippe
Printer:: Typis Josephi Barbou
Place of Printing:: Lutetiae Parisiorum (Paris)
Date of Printing:: 1754
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McCune Location:: Sh. 10 #2

Authors and Commentators

Decimus Junius Juvenalis (fl. 1st and 2nd Century). Satirical Roman poet.

Aulus Persius Flaccus (34-62 A.D.) – Roman poet and satirist from Volterra.

Petri Pithoie (Pierre Pithou) (1539-1596) – French lawyer and scholar. He wrote a number of legal and historical works as well as editing classical writers, such as Juvenal and Persius.

Nicolas Rigault (1577-1654). French classical scholar. As well as preparing many books on the works of classical authors, he was also a librarian to Louis XIII.

Jacques Auguste de Thou (1553-1617). French historian. He wrote a History of His Time in 138 books which covered Europe from 1506-1607.

Stephen Andre Philippe (Etienne Andre Philippe De Pretot) 1708-1787. Royal censor and professor of history at the Royal Academy of Science in Paris. He edited a number of classical authors.

The Book

Decii Junii Juvenalis Satirarum Libri Quinque. Ex Recognitione, Steph. And. Philippe. The first section of this volume contains the six books of Juvenal’s 16 Satires and a note by Pierre Pithou. It also has Nicolas Rigault’s work on Juvenal’s Satires and the life of Jacques Auguste de Thou. The second section has the life of Aulus Persius Flaccus by Giovanni Britannico of Brescia and the Satires of Persius.

Artists and Engravers

Claude Augustin Pierre Duflos (1700-1786). French engraver.

----: Frontis. Cl. Duflos.
Title: Decii Junii Juvenalis Satirarum Libri Quinque. Ex Recognitione, Steph. And. Philippe.
----: Printmark. “Non Solus”. Old Man Under Vine-entwined Tree.
iii-v: Decii Junii Juvenalis Vita. A Probo Aut Alio Vetusto Auctore Scripta
v-vii: Petri Pithoei Notae Ad Superiorem Vitam.
viii-xv: Testimonia Veterum Scriptorum De Juvenale.
xvi-lxv: Nicolai Rigaltii De Satira Juvenalis Dissertatio Ad Illustrissimum Virum Jac. Aug. Thuanum.
lxvi-lxviii: Libris Quinque Satirarum Juvenalis Continenturs Satirae XVI.
1-43: D. Junii Juvenalis Satirarum Liber Primus.
44-71: D. Junii Juvenalis Satirarum Liber Secundus.
72-101: D. Junii Juvenalis Satirarum Liber Tertius.
102-132: D. Junii Juvenalis Satirarum Liber Quartus.
133-173: D. Junii Juvenalis Satirarum Liber Quintus.
176: Frontis. Cl Duflos.
177-182: Auli Persii Flacci Vita.
183-186: Auli Persii Flacii Vita Per Joannem Britannicum.
187: Scriptorum Veterum De Persio Testimonia.
188: Blank page
189-190: Auli Persii Flacci in Suum Satirarum Librum, Prologus.
191-197: Auli Persii Flacci Satirae Sex Satira I.
198-202: Ad Plotium Macrinum, De Bona Mente. Satira II.
202-207: Satira III Increpatio Desidiae.
208-210: Satira IV
211-219: Satira V Ad Annaeum Cornutum, Magistrum Equitum.
220-223: Satira VI Ad Caesium Bassum
224: Index in Sex Satiras Persii.