Satires of Juvenal and Persius

...[The text fragments suggest] a Praetexta a Roman historical drama play, one book of itineraries travel narratives, and certain other things, as the old glosses say: but his mother Fulvia destroyed them, on the advice of his tutor Cornutus, who also reviewed his Satires before they were published.

Moreover, although Persius seems to have intended not to be understood, and thus to deserve being neglected, as St. Ambrose said, yet as the great Scaliger says, he is now understood by us, and therefore ought not to be neglected by anyone. For why would he have been so praised by the greatest men if he were not worthy of being read? Let Eusebius, St. Jerome, St. Augustine, Lactantius, Quintilian, and almost countless others be witnesses. And among the poets, Lucan, who like Persius was a student of Cornutus, and who, as the Old Interpreter affirms, would never hear his poems recited without admiration and praise, even exclaiming that these were true poems. Martial, furthermore, consigned the memory of Persius to posterity in these verses: