Juvenal definition

jo͝ovə-nəl
Roman satirist whose works denounced the corruption and extravagance of the privileged classes in Rome.
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(person) (L. name Decimus Junius Juvenalis) A.d. 60?-140; Rom. satirical poet.
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Of a young bird, that has its first flying plumage.
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A juvenal bird.
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Singular:
juvenal
Plural:
juvenals

Origin of juvenal

  • From Latin iuvenālis (“youthful”), from iuvenis (“youth”).

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Juvenal Sentence Examples

  • He also published commentaries on portions of Cicero (especially the De finibus), on Ausonius, Juvenal, Curtius Rufus, and other classical authors.

  • Whilst under the first of these tutors, in nine months he read all Thucydides, Sophocles and Sallust, twelve books of Tacitus, the greater part of Horace, Juvenal, Persius, and several plays of Aeschylus and Euripides.

  • The closeness of the connexion is illustrated by Juvenal's epigram that a Cynic differed from a Stoic only by his cloak.

  • The classics, " as low as Tacitus, Pliny the Younger and Juvenal," had been long familiar.

  • According to Juvenal the sons of such proselytes were apt to go farther and to substitute the Jewish Law for the Roman Romanas autem soliti contemnere leges; Judaicum ediscunt et servant ac metuunt ius Tradidit arcano quodcunque volumine Moyses.

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