Life of Terence. See before p. 532, where they are translated.]

[Footnote 944: Juvenal was born at Aquinum, a town of the Volscians, as
appears by an ancient MS., and is intimated by himself. Sat. iii. 319.]

[Footnote 945: He must have been therefore nearly forty years old at this
time, as he lived to be eighty.]

[Footnote 946: The seventh of Juvenal's Satires.]

[Footnote 947: This Paris does not appear to have been the favourite of
Nero, who was put to death by that prince (see NERO, c. liv.)
but another person of the same name, who was patronised by the emperor
Domitian. The name of the poet joined with him is not known. Salmatius
thinks it was Statius Pompilius, who sold to Paris, the actor, the play of
Agave;

Esurit, intactam
Paridi nisi vendat Agaven.
--Juv. Sat. vii. 87.]

[Footnote 948: Sulpicius Camerinus had been proconsul in Africa; Bareas
Soranus in Asia. Tacit. Annal. xiii. 52; xvi. 23. Both of them are said
to have been corrupt in their administration; and the satirist introduces
their names as examples of the rich and noble, whose influence was less
than that of favourite actors, or whose avarice prevented them from
becoming the patrons of poets.]

[Footnote 949: The "Pelopea," was a tragedy founded on the story of the
daughter of Thyestes; the "Philomela," a tragedy on the fate of Itys,
whose remains were served to his father at a banquet by Philomela and her
sister Progne.]

[Footnote 950: This was in the time of Adrian. Juvenal, who wrote first
in the reigns of Domitian and Trajan, composed his last Satire but one in
the third year of Adrian, A.U.C. 872.]

[Footnote 951: Syene is meant, the frontier station of the imperial
troops in that quarter of the world.]

[Footnote 952: A.U.C. 786, A.D. 34.]

[Footnote 953: A.U.C. 814, A.D. 62.]

[Footnote 954: Persius was one of the few men of rank and affluence among
the Romans, who acquired distinction as writers; the greater part of them
having been freedmen, as appears not only from these lives of the poets,
but from our author's notices of the grammarians and rhetoricians. A
Caius Persius is mentioned with distinction by Livy in the second Punic
war, Hist. xxvi. 39; and another of the same name by Cicero, de Orat. ii.
6, and by Pliny; but whether the poet was descended from either of them,
we have no means of ascertaining.]

[Footnote 955: Persius addressed his fifth satire to Annaeus Cornutus.
He was a