A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius: With Copious Explanatory Notes, by which These Difficult Satirists are Rendered Easy and Familiar to the Reader |
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| Title | A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius: With Copious Explanatory Notes, by which These Difficult Satirists are Rendered Easy and Familiar to the Reader Volume 1 of A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius: With Copious Explanatory Notes, by which These Difficult Satirists are Rendered Easy and Familiar to the Reader : in Two Volumes, Martin Madan |
| Author | Juvenal |
| Editor | Martin Madan |
| Translated by | Martin Madan |
| Publisher | Editor, and sold at T. Becket's, 1789 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 10 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 443 pages |
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