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Satire
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In his survey of the classical literature useful to an orator, the first-century rhetorician Quintilian famously asserts that ‘satire is an entirely Roman genre’ (satura quidem …

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Marsh, David, “Satire”, in: Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World, General Editor Craig Kallendorf. Consulted online on 19 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004271296_enlo_B9789004271012_0033>
First published online: 2014
First print edition: ISBN:9789004265721



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