708. Vitae 1, 2, 4, 7. Perhaps an inference from Sat. xv. 45.
709. See 708.
710. Vitae 5 and 6. If the inscription (see p. 288) refers to the poet, this view has further support.
711. Joh. Mal., loc. cit.
712. Trajan had, however, a favourite in the pantomimus Pylades. Dio. Cass. Ixviii. 10.
713. The simplest suggestion is that Juvenal was at some time banished, that the reason for his banishment was forgotten and supplied by conjecture. Cp. Friedländer's ed., p. 44. There is no real evidence to prove that Juvenal was ever in Egypt or Britain. His topography in Sat. xv is faulty, and allusion to the oysters of Richborough (ostrea Rutupina, iv. 141) would be possible even in a poet who had never visited Britain.
714. i. 1-3, 17, 18 (Dryden's translation).
715. i. 79.
716. Ib. 85.
717. Ib. 147-50.