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unusual facts about Satires of Juvenal



Gaius Lucilius

Persius, Juvenal and Quintilian vouch for the admiration with which he was regarded in the first century of the empire.

Swordsmanship

One translation of Juvenal's poetry by Barten Holyday in 1661 makes note that the Roman trainees learned to fight with the wooden wasters before moving on to the use of sharpened steel.

Waster

Translations of Roman poets Horace and Juvenal provide evidence of this training weapon in use.


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