... 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 in the month of August' ... (p. 167). This image appears to be comic; the humor is amplified through bathos. Martin Madan notes that 'in the month of August, the hottest season of the year [] most people had retired to the country, so that one might ... is no reason why Johnson should not depart from...

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