SATYRE, or SATIRE, in matters of literature, a discourse or poem, exposing the vices and follies of mankind.
The chief satyrs among the ancients are Horace, Juvenal, and Persius: those among the moderns, Regnier, and Boileau, in French; and Dryden, Oldham, Rochester, Buckingham, Pope, Young, &c. among the English.