satires
- plural of satire.
Example Sentences
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Independent policing of the news has a natural appeal, but it raises the question posed in Juvenal’s Satires: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2018
The longevity of Swift’s work is a testament to its potency because no genre fades as quickly: Satires are the cut flowers of literature.
From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2017
In the second century A.D., wagon traffic “sufficient to wake the dead” ruined the Roman poet Juvenal’s ability to rest between Satires.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2012
Pirandello Old, He Writes Wise Satires Luigi Pirandello is a short, slight, active Italian gentleman of some 56 years, with a gray beard and bright brown eyes.
From Time Magazine Archive
There remains on our list only one Latin volume, the third part of Professor Mayor’s Juvenal for Schools, containing Satires X. and XI.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
