Persius

Perhaps we may think the ferule well deserved when we read of the schoolboy's trick immortalized by Persius.

I am now arrived at the most difficult part of my undertaking, which is, to compare Horace with Juvenal and Persius.

Neither Persius nor Juvenal were ignorant of this, for they had both studied Horace.

If Persius, says he, be in himself obscure, yet my interpretation has made him intelligible.

This is a strange mistake in an author, who translated Persius entirely, and great part of Juvenal.