ABSTRACT
Date and publication. The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse by Mr. Dryden, and Several Other Eminent Hands. Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus Made English by Mr. Dryden. With Explanatory Notes at the end of each Satire. To which is Prefix’d a Discourse concerning the Original and Progress of Satire. Dedicated to the Right Honourable Charles Earl of Dorset, &c. By Mr. Dryden was published in folio by Tonson in 1692 (advertised in The London Gazette 24–7 October). The title page is dated 1693. A second edition appeared in 1697, but there is no evidence that D. revised the text for this publication. The translation of ‘The Tenth Satire’ was one of the three Juvenal translations by D. entered by Tonson on the SR on 9 February 1691, and therefore, presumably, one of the four which had been completed by February 1692 (see Peter Motteux in the Gentleman’s Journal for that month). The present text is based on 1693, with paragraphing introduced at l. 112 and overridden at ll. 116, 190.
