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Page 64
... living creatures , but not yet men . 100. mutum : lacking the power of articulate speech . - turpe : still shapeless , not of human form.— glandem atque cubilia : food and shelter no better than that of animals . 101-102 . unguibus et ...
... living creatures , but not yet men . 100. mutum : lacking the power of articulate speech . - turpe : still shapeless , not of human form.— glandem atque cubilia : food and shelter no better than that of animals . 101-102 . unguibus et ...
Page 77
... living out of the fines collected on evidence furnished by them . Such men were a necessary part of the Ro- man police system , but , like the publicani , they were held in ill repute and the implied comparison . of the satirist to a ...
... living out of the fines collected on evidence furnished by them . Such men were a necessary part of the Ro- man police system , but , like the publicani , they were held in ill repute and the implied comparison . of the satirist to a ...
Page 149
... living being , to generalize the thought . 41. vagina tectus : these are the important words in the com- parison ; as a sword is a defence , even though it is not drawn from its scabbard . ' 42. tutus : i.e. ' as long as I am not ...
... living being , to generalize the thought . 41. vagina tectus : these are the important words in the com- parison ; as a sword is a defence , even though it is not drawn from its scabbard . ' 42. tutus : i.e. ' as long as I am not ...
Page 155
... living- I am repeating what I once heard from a wise old farmer — cannot be properly set forth in an after - dinner conversation ; only a hungry man can know how good plain food may be . At a dinner party your judgment is confused by ...
... living- I am repeating what I once heard from a wise old farmer — cannot be properly set forth in an after - dinner conversation ; only a hungry man can know how good plain food may be . At a dinner party your judgment is confused by ...
Page 163
... living , but will not carry refine- ment to such an extreme that it will seem to be mere stinginess . ' The meaning of mundus ( mundi- tia ) is limited in the same way in Sat. 1 , 2 , 123 and in Cic . de Off . 1 , 36 , 130 ; cf. also ...
... living , but will not carry refine- ment to such an extreme that it will seem to be mere stinginess . ' The meaning of mundus ( mundi- tia ) is limited in the same way in Sat. 1 , 2 , 123 and in Cic . de Off . 1 , 36 , 130 ; cf. also ...
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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.