Links to translation of the Satires of Lucilius

The numerous fragments of the Satires of Gaius Lucilius have been translated by E.M.Warmington in volume 3 of "Remains of Old Latin", with the Latin text on facing pages. This volume can be found on the 'internet archive', and the following table contains links to each book in the translation, and also to the translator's introduction. The concordance can be used to compare the fragment numbers in the older edition by F.Marx with the numbers in Warmington's edition.

The books of the Satires fall into three groups: books 1-21 in hexameters, books 22-25 in elegiac couplets, and books 26-30 in various metres. Only a few fragments have survived from the second group. The third group was clearly written before the first group, and Warmington thought that within the groups the books were arranged approximately in chronological order, although more recent writers have doubted this. Warmington's suggested dates for some of the books are shown in green.

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