Satires 2.5 (Horace) the over-insistent heir in Thebes who was required by the will of his benefactor to carry her oil-soaked slippery carcass on his shoulders during the funeral procession. "Satire 2.5" is often thought of as the least “Horatian” of the Satires and is often compared to works by Juvenal, a poet of the 1st century AD. Juvenal’s poems focus on the perversions of man and hint at Man’s loss of “his highest potentialities”. Many scholars acknowledge this cynicism in "Satire 2.5" and see a connection between the two authors. As Shackleton Bailey writes, “Uniquely for Horace, it concerns a particular social
Christian Falster Christian Falster Christian Falster (January 1, 1690 – October 24, 1752) was a Danish poet and philologist, born at Branderslev (island of Laaland). He became rector of the school at Ribe. He preferred to live there, refusing to accept better positions, and keeping his rectorship. He published translations of Ovid (1719) and the Satires of Juvenal (1731); 11 original satires on his times, often reprinted (1720–39); and in Latin a number of works, such as "Viglia Prima Noctium Ripensiun" (1721); "Memori Obscur (1722); Amnitates Philologic" (three volumes, 1821–32). The editors of "The Classical Journal" wrote that: Falster thought that all