or SATIRE, in matters of literature, a discourse or poem, exposing the vices and follies of mankind. 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, Rochester, Buckingham, Swift, Pope, Young, &c. among the English; and Cervantes among the Spaniards.