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      Lyon, L. Hillaire, (1517). 4to. 6 ff., 141 ff, 1 ff blank. Printed in Gothic Letters. Eighteenth century mottled calf binding, spine gold-tooled with red titleshield. * According to Baudrier Laurent Hyllaire is mentioned as working in Lyon in 1506 and there is another mention of him in 1530 witnessing a marriage. In ink on the first page is the date 1498 but the book is in fact from 1517. * Juvenal, whose full name was Decimus Junius Juvenalis, was a satirical poet active in Imperial Rome in the 2nd and 3rd decades of the 2nd century. Juvenal, today, is most well-known for his 16 Satires (which were, already in ancient times, arranged into five books). These satires (Saturae) are sharp attacks on the vices and misdeeds of Roman society. [Baudrier Vol. II, p. 68]