Juvenal

Roman satirist — author of 16 Satires — who attacked Rome's moral corruption with savage wit — whose phrases ('bread and circuses'; 'who watches the watchmen?') have survived as Latin quotations for 2,000 years.

Creates formal verse satire at maximum intensity — Juvenal's Satires establish the tone of savage moral outrage that defines the satirical tradition; his combination of moral seriousness with comic invective is the model for Dryden's and Pope's Augustan satire.