Note 13 — THE LIFE OF JUVENAL, BY WILLIAM GIFFORD, ESQ.
Lewis Evans translation
But how to this ascertained? Very easily; he calls him "fecundus Juvenalis." Here the question is finally left; for none of the commentators suppose it possible that the epithet can be applied to any but a rhetorician. Yet it is applied by the same writer to a poet of no ordinary kind;
"Accipe, facundi Culicem, studiose. Maronis Ne, nugis positis, arma virumque canas." Lib. xiv., 185.
And, by the author himself, to one who had grown old in the art:
"————tunc seque suamque Terpsichoren odit facunda et nuda senectus."
Let it be remembered, too, that Martial, as is evident from the frequent allusions to Domitian's expedition against the Catti, wrote this epigram (lib. vii., 91) in the commencement of that prince's reign, when it is acknowledged that Juvenal had produced but one or two of his Satires.