Excerpt from The New Fragments of Juvenal: A Lecture Delivered at Corpus Christi College on Tuesday, February 5, 1901 It is tolerably clear that these three lines are an alteration and condensation of the other five this would be a natural consequence of the poet's rejecting the fragment as a whole, yet retaining the concluding verses, in accordance with an economic feeling that they were sufficiently finished to need little change but curtailment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.