Elmer Truesdell Merrill

Fragments of Roman Satire from Ennius to Apuleius Elmer Truesdell Merrill

Originally published in 1897, PREFACE: This book is printed especially for the convenience of those college instructors who offer courses of lectures and readings in the historical development of Roman Satire. Excellent editions of Horace, Persius and Juvenal are ready at hand, and it is to these authors that the attention of students will doubtless be chiefly directed. But it is hoped that the survey of the rest of the field of Roman Satire, though in the more cursory way of supplementary reading, may be helped by the publication of an easily accesible and inexpensive text of the more available portions of the work of the authors here included.... This early works is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of any historian. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and