or SATIRE, in matters of literature, a comedy or poem, exposing the vices and follies of man- kind. See POETRY, Part II. Sect. x.

The chief satirists among the ancients are, Horace, Juvenal, and Persius; those among the moderns, are, Regnier and Boileau, in French; Butler, Dryden, Ro- chester, Buckingham, Swift, Pope, Young, &c. among the English; and Cervantes among the Spaniards.

SA TYRIASIS. See MEDICINE, p. 372.