... occasion of Dr. Johnson's 250th birthday, Mary Lascelles concludes that 'London has not the brilliance of its original, because it lacks the lightening flash of its irony'.2 Lascelles is arguably right to find irony in Juvenal's 'Satire III', and in sensing none in London, she aligns herself ... Satire III'. For example, in the presentation of the city, Juvenal comments that residents live 'in dread of fires, and buildings collapsing continually' and notes that there are a 'thousand other dangers of savage Rome', but his ultimate grievance, is 'the poets reciting...

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