Crossword-Solution: SATIRA 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Then follows an imitation of the first Epistle of the Second Book of the Satires of Horace, concerning which Pope told a friend, "When I had a fever one winter in town that confined me to my room for five or six days, Lord Bolingbroke, who came to see me, happened to take up a Horace that lay on the table, and, turning it over, dropped on the first satire in the Second Book, which begins, 'Sunt, quibus in satira.' He observed how well that would suit my case if I were to imitate it in English.

But Casaubon and his followers, with reason, condemn this derivation, and prove that from Satyrus the word _satira_, as it signifies a poem, cannot possibly descend.

For _satira_ is not properly a substantive, but an adjective; to which the word _lanx_ (in English a “charger” or “large platter”) is understood: so that the Greek poem made according to the manners of a Satyr, and expressing his qualities, must properly be called satirical, and not satire.

The name _Satura_ (or _Satira_) is from _lanx saturu_, the medley or hodge-podge, "quae referta variis multisque primitiis in sacro apud priscos diis inferebatur." Mommsen supposes it to have been the "masque of the full men" (_saturi_), enacted at a popular festival, while others have connected it with the Greek Satyric Drama.

The conception of Satire by the ancients is illustrated by a passage in Diomedes: [11] "_Satira dicitur carmen apud Romanos nunc quidem maledicum et ad carpenda hominum vitia archaeae comoediae charactere compositum, quale scripserunt Lucilius et Horatius et Persius; at olim carmen quod ex variis poematibus constabat satira cocabatur, quale scripserunt Pacuvius et Ennius_." This old-fashioned _satura_ of Ennius may be considered as half-way between the early semi-dramatic farce and the classical Satire.