Word: juvenall
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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A very entertaining pamphlet, being sometimes highly ludicrous at places where "the laugh" was hardly intended to "come in" by the author. It is written from the antediluvian-proslavery point of view. Unparalleled and impossible virtues are invented for the past, and every exceptional case of transgression in modern times...
JUVENAL, Sat. VI., line 160. Et vetus indulget senibus dementia porcis. The words indulget senibus porcis are usually translated "grants long life to pigs." A new meaning, however, was put upon them by a Junior in a late recitation, who read the line as follows: "And ancient clemency indulges the...