SATIRE

a epecies of literary compos tion that oe ridicules, and censure the vices and follies of the age. It origir ated among the Romans, Horace an Juvenal excelled in the art, Hh oe Pope, Swift, and Byron may be ment i one as English writers who have employed j * in their works. SATURN. (1) In Roman mptholog; Saturn was the god of agriculture. He i usually depicted as an old man, bent wit! age, nace hs sickle in his right hand (2) The sixth planet in order of distane from the sun and the second in size. I rotates upon its axis in 104 hours, an revolves round the sun in slightly le tha: thirty years. ‘The most remarkable thin, about Saturn is tho series of oe ring that surround it, about 10,00) mile distant from it, and almost in the sam pene as its equator, It is i tha ngs represent a vast aggregation o small satellites. In addition the plane has at least cicht moons. [s. 271]