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... allusions . That is , without denying that Horace may be made useful as the basis for a study of Roman life , and without forgetting that it is absurd to talk of studying the thought , if the language is only imper- fectly understood ...
... allusions . That is , without denying that Horace may be made useful as the basis for a study of Roman life , and without forgetting that it is absurd to talk of studying the thought , if the language is only imper- fectly understood ...
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... allusions in his works . Quintus Horatius Flaccus was born in Venusia , a Roman colony in the borderland between Lucania and Apulia , on the 8th of December , 65 B.C. His father was a freedman , that is , he had been a slave , but had ...
... allusions in his works . Quintus Horatius Flaccus was born in Venusia , a Roman colony in the borderland between Lucania and Apulia , on the 8th of December , 65 B.C. His father was a freedman , that is , he had been a slave , but had ...
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... allusions , serious or satirical , we are able to see , behind the figures of the greater poets whose writings have survived to our times , a long array of men of lesser rank , not undistinguished among their contempo- raries , and ...
... allusions , serious or satirical , we are able to see , behind the figures of the greater poets whose writings have survived to our times , a long array of men of lesser rank , not undistinguished among their contempo- raries , and ...
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... allusions are in fact personal attacks . Many of the names are taken from Lucilius and had long since ceased to be anything but types in literature . Others are from the Cice- ronian period , the names of men who were then notorious ...
... allusions are in fact personal attacks . Many of the names are taken from Lucilius and had long since ceased to be anything but types in literature . Others are from the Cice- ronian period , the names of men who were then notorious ...
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... allusion to them was no more properly offensive or , indeed , personal , than an allusion in a modern newspaper to the men whose names are upon everybody's lips . Many names are fictitious , some pure inventions like the names in a ...
... allusion to them was no more properly offensive or , indeed , personal , than an allusion in a modern newspaper to the men whose names are upon everybody's lips . Many names are fictitious , some pure inventions like the names in a ...
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Alcaeus allusion argument Aristippus atque Augustus Brundisium Caesar Carm Catullus Cicero clause colloquial comedy contrast critics cura doctrine enim Ennius epic Epist Epod erat erit etiam expression figure frumenti Greek haec Horace Horace's humorous hunc idem illi inter ipse Latin letter literature Lucilius lyric poetry Maecenas mala meaning melius ment mihi modo multa natura neque nihil nisi nunc olim omnes omnis pater pede philosophy phrase Plautus poem poet poetry praetor pueri quae quam quia quid quis quod recte reference rerum Roman Rome saepe sapiens satire satis Satyr play Scholiast sense sermon sibi sine slave Stertinius Stoic story style Suetonius sunt tamen thought tibi Tibullus tion tone ultro Venusia verb verba Vergil verse verum vitae wine words writing
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Page 39 - Est modus in rebus, sunt certi denique fines, Quos ultra citraque nequit consistere rectum.
Page 171 - Caetera qui vitae servaret munia recto More, bonus sane vicinus, amabilis hospes, Comis in uxorem, posset qui ignoscere servis Et signo laeso non...
Page 40 - Tam multae scelerum facies; non ullus aratro Dignus honos; squalent abductis arva colonis, Et curvae rigidum falces conflantur in ensem. Hinc movet Euphrates, illinc Germania bellum ; Vicinae ruptis inter se legibus urbes 510 Arma ferunt ; saevit toto Mars impius orbe : Ut cum carceribus sese effudere quadrigae, Addunt in spatia, et frustra retinacula tendens Fertur equis auriga, neque audit currus habenas.
Page 183 - HIIMANO capiti cervicem pictor equinam Jungere si velit, et varias inducere plumas Undique collatis membris, ut turpiter atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne, Spectatum admissi risum teneatis, amici...
Page 185 - ... inceptis gravibus plerumque et magna professis purpureus, late qui splendeat, unus et alter adsuitur pannus, cum lucus et ara Dianae et properantis aquae per amoenos ambitus agros, aut flumen Rhenum aut pluvius describitur arcus. sed nunc non erat his locus. et fortasse cupressum з8o Q.
Page 225 - Pythia cantat 415 tibicen, didicit prius extimuitque magistrum. nunc satis est dixisse 'ego mira poemata pango ; occupet extremum scabies ; mihi turpe relinqui est et quod non didici sane nescire fateri'.
Page 75 - ... agedum, pauca accipe contra. primum ego me illorum dederim quibus esse poetas excerpam numero: neque enim concludere versum 40 dixeris esse satis; neque si qui scribat uti nos sermoni propiora, putes hunc esse poetam, ingenium cui sit, cui mens divinior atque os magna sonaturum, des nominis huius honorem.
Page 26 - De te pendentis, te respicientis amici. 105 Ad summam : sapiens uno minor est Jove, dives, Liber, honoratus, pulcher, rex denique regum, Praecipue sanus, nisi cum pituita molesta est. EPISTOLA II. TROJANI belli scriptorem, maxime Lolli, Dum tu declamas Romae, Praeneste relegi, Qui, quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non, Planius ac melius Chrysippo et Crantore dicit.
Page 167 - Quid ferai et quare sibi nectat uterque coronam. Caedimur et totidem plagis consumimus hostem Lento Samnites ad lumina prima duello. Discedo Alcaeus puncto illius ; ille meo quis ? Quis nisi Callimachus ? Si plus adposcere visus, Fit Mimnermus, et optivo cognomine crescit.
Page 214 - Munus et officium, nil scribens ipse, docebo ; Unde parentur opes ; quid alat formetque poetam ; Quid deceat, quid non ; quo virtus, quo ferat error.