1814 JUNII JUVENALIS et PERSII FLACCI SATIRAE antique 1st American EDITION

img{max-width:100%} D. Junii Juvenalis Et A. Persii Flacci Satirae Interpretatione Ac Notis Illustravit Ludovicus Prateus, Rhetoricae Professor Emeritus, Jussu Christianissimi Regis in Usum Serenissimi DelphiniPhiladelphiae : Impensis M. Carey; 1814Size 5 3/4 by 8 3/4"Leather bound428 pagesText in LatinProvenance (with stamp on the front pastedown): Benjamin Osgood Peirce (1854 – 1914) was an American mathematician and a holder of the Hollis Chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard from 1888 until his death in 1914.------------------------------- Decimus Junius Juvenalis , known in English as Juvenal ,  was a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD. He is the author of the collection of satirical poems known as the Satires. The details of the author's life are unclear, although references within his text to known persons of the late first and early second centuries AD fix his earliest date of composition. One recent scholar argues that his first b