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Johnson had no trouble finding fairly exact counterparts in his London of the eighteenth century for many of the blights of Juvenal's ancient Rome, but there was really nothing to match the horror of the amateur poetry reading in Trajan's time; the closest analogy Johnson could come up with, an elegant one under the circumstances, is his “female atheist.”
(It should be noted that Johnson made the same kind of adaptation of another poem by Juvenal, Satire X, calling it The Vanity of Human Wishes.
) Juvenal wrote his satire on Rome in the early years of the second century, during the reign of the Emperor Trajan.
Under this last heading, among the many alleged undesirables in Juvenal's Rome is what he calls in a memorable phrase Graeculus esuriens , the “hungry little Greek.”
The passage in Juvenal's poem which corresponds most closely to the one quoted by Mr. Conniff is near the beginning (lines 7-9), where Juvenal, building up to an ironic crescendo, shudders at the thought of: