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Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, Anglicized as Juvenal, was a Roman satiric poet.
60 - Juvenal was born at Aquinum.
Juvenal was the son or ward of a wealthy freedman; he practiced declamation until middle age.
Made his first essay in satire by writing the lines on Paris, the actor and favorite of Domitian, now found in the seventh satire.
140 - Juvenal eighty years of age died shortly afterwards of grief and vexation.
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