Satires

Juvenal's 16 Roman satires — written 100–127 CE — attacking Rome's moral corruption, imperial sycophancy, women, and foreigners with savage wit — the most morally severe Roman satire and the source of the phrase 'bread and circuses.'

Creates formal verse satire at its most savage — Juvenal's Satires ('Panem et circenses' — bread and circuses; 'Who watches the watchmen?'; 'A healthy mind in a healthy body') contain the most quoted Latin phrases after Virgil and Horace; his technique of sustained moral outrage in verse established formal satire as a genre.