Persius

[ pur-shuhs, -shee-uhs ]

noun

1. Aulus Persius Flaccus, a.d. 34–62, Roman satirist.

Example Sentences

Perhaps we may think the ferule well deserved when we read of the schoolboy's trick immortalized by Persius.

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I am now arrived at the most difficult part of my undertaking, which is, to compare Horace with Juvenal and Persius.

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Neither Persius nor Juvenal were ignorant of this, for they had both studied Horace.

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If Persius, says he, be in himself obscure, yet my interpretation has made him intelligible.

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This is a strange mistake in an author, who translated Persius entirely, and great part of Juvenal.

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