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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: Roman satirist who denounced the vice and folly of Roman society during the reign of the emperor Domitian (60-140) [syn: Juvenal, Decimus Junius Juvenalis]

Merriam Webster's

biographical name A.D. 55 to 60-circa 127 Decimus Junius Juvenalis Roman poet & satirist • Juvenalian adjective

Britannica Concise

Roman poet. He probably came from a well-to-do family, became an army officer, and grew embittered by failure to receive a promotion. He is chiefly known for his 16 Satires, indignant attacks on human brutality and folly, particularly the corruption of Roman society under Domitian and his more humane successors Nerva, Trajan, and Hadrian. His verses are technically fine, vivid, and often ruthless, and have been admired and imitated since the 5th cent., and many of his phrases and epigrams ("bread and circuses," "who will guard the guards themselves?" etc.) have entered common parlance.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Juvenal Ju"ve*nal, n. [L. juvenalis youthful, juvenile, fr. juvenis young.] A youth. [Obs.] --Shak.