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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius

Note 590 — JUVENAL'S SATIRES. (continued 2)

Lewis Evans translation

Augusta. The old reading was angustâ. The alteration of a single letter converts a forceless expletive into an epithet full of picturesque and historic truth.

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