SATYR, or Satire, in matters of literature, a discourse or poem, exposing the vices and follies of mankind. See POETRY, no 88.
The chief satirists among the ancients are, Horace, Juvenal, and Persius: those among the moderns, are, Regnier and Boileau, in French; and Dryden, Oldham, Rochester, Buckingham, Pope, Young, &c. among the English.