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Juvenal
ca. 55–ca. 128
Juvenal was a Roman poet best known for his Satires, a collection of poems critiquing Roman society. He skewered the moral corruption, social inequality, and decadence of imperial Rome with biting wit and sharp rhetoric. Unusually for a Roman poet, Juvenal targeted Jewish members of society and Jewish customs in his diatribe.
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When Berenice Leaves
Then in the month of winter, when Jason the merchant is shut off from view and gleaming booths screen his armed sailors, she’ll carry off large crystal vases, the most enormous pieces of agate too…