Satire: a Roman literary genre -- Origin and name of the satura -- The satires of Quintus Ennius -- Gaius Lucilius -- Varro's Menippeans -- Satire at the end of the republic -- Horace's satires and epistles -- Seneca's apocolocyntosis -- Petronius' novel -- Aules Persius Flaccus -- Satire in the time of Domitian -- Decimus Junius Juvenalis.