The Satires of Persius
William Gifford's couplet Persius: the Prologue and all six satires. Gifford's Juvenal, in the same volume, is catalogued separately as juvenal-satires.
Measured across the book
Across its 1,211 lines, 96% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 95% to 96%). Alliteration runs at 0.97 times what shuffling the words would give (0.34 observed against 0.35 expected). 4% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Prologueiambic tetrameter · AABB · 28 linesSatire Iiambic pentameter · AABB · 255 linesTo Plotius Macrinus (On His Birthday)iambic pentameter · AABB · 128 linesSatire IIIiambic pentameter · AABB · 212 linesSatire IViambic pentameter · AABB · 92 linesTo Annæus Cornutusiambic pentameter · AABB · 340 linesTo Cæsius Bassusiambic pentameter · AABB · 156 lines
About this text
Public domain. Text from The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius Literally translated into English prose, with notes, chronological tables, arguments, &c., Project Gutenberg ebook #50657. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.