Juvenalian
English
Etymology
Juvenal + -ian.
Adjective
Juvenalian (comparative more Juvenalian, superlative most Juvenalian)
- Of or pertaining to the Roman poet Juvenal or to his (satirical) works or style.
- 1986, Emory Elliott, Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New Republic, 1725-1810, Oxford University Press, page 191,
- The satire here is more heavy-handed and the tone more Juvenalian than in any passage in the first volume.
- 2007, Joseph F. Bartolomeo, 14: Restoration and Eighteenth-century Satiric Fiction, Ruben Quintero (editor), A Companion to Satire, page 271,
- The satiric voice, as Gadeken (2002) argues, is more Juvenalian in tone, but is confined almost exclusively to the narrator.
- 2019, Ronald Paulson, The Fictions of Satire, Johns Hopkins University Press, Open access edition, unnumbered page,
- At its most Juvenalian, it follows from Horace's Venusian ancestors, who guarded the Roman border against barbarians, as Horace does figuratively now.
- 1986, Emory Elliott, Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New Republic, 1725-1810, Oxford University Press, page 191,
Translations
of or pertaining to Juvenal, his works or his style