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Roman satire, once relatively neglected, enjoys more attention from Classicists these days than it has perhaps since the eighteenth century. Our appreciation has surely changed in temper since that era which prized urbanity, but the protean nature of Roman satura serves our own preoccupations just as well. I hope that I have contributed to the contemporary look at this genre of the Romans’ own making and have perhaps introduced another register into our current discourse on satire. For any virtue in that contribution I have many to thank. I am grateful to Adam Mehring and Barbara Wojhoski of the University of Wisconsin Press for their great care and infinite patience in the preparation of this book. My sincerest thanks too to Blythe Woolston, indexer supreme. The University of Notre Dame has given me a generous home in the Classics department, all of whose members offered me support in their special ways. Dan Sheerin and Martin Bloomer gave me meticulous and thoughtful suggestions on early renditions of the project, and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts provided me with an extra portion of Notre Dame’s resources for help in the book’s completion. Versions of chapters four and two appeared in Arethusa and the American Journal of Philology, and I am grateful to their readers and reviewers for shrewd readings and critiques. Eleanor Leach and my dear graduate school comrade Mary Depew each kindly invited me to present portions of this work at crucial stages. I would like to thank teachers and mentors, some from long ago. Ralph Johnson introduced me to the concept of choral poetry, and maybe even Acknowledgments vii of poetry. J. P. Sullivan introduced me to the many voices of Roman satire and himself enacted its best precepts as he lived and died. Phil Levine taught me about the moral dimensions of education and academia, not to mention a passion for Latin literature. To Kenneth Reckford and Daniel Hooley I owe great thanks for spontaneous and generous support. Good fortune has dogged me in my friends. Liz and Tadeusz Mazurek have been marvelous colleagues and interlocutors. Doris Bergen and Laura Crago cast their keen historians’ eyes over the introduction, to its great benefit. In different ways but to similar ends Naomi Cassirer and Daniel Mattern each supplied their formidable editorial skills to this author’s need. Under Paulene Popek’s careful guidance I learned to think about violence in news ways; among numberless other intellectual and emotional gifts Rebecca Resinski taught me to do the same. Lannie Abrams and my brother Tom Schlegel gave me general life-support to keep thinking. Tom Habinek, besides giving me employment at a critical time, has been a friend in more ways than I think I actually know. Keith Bradley has been a friend and a patronus in all the best senses of that complicated word. Henry Weinfield, an extraordinary colleague, read every word of this manuscript, and had a comment on quite a few of those words. Carole Newlands, anima candida, lent her numinous support to all elements of this project; she has my everlasting gratitude and respect. viii Acknowledgments Satire and the Threat of Speech ...