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... poems and the doctrine of the golden mean , it is only because we accept the result without following the process which led to it . For the two are identical ; there is no break in the development ; indeed , it is out of precisely such ...
... poems and the doctrine of the golden mean , it is only because we accept the result without following the process which led to it . For the two are identical ; there is no break in the development ; indeed , it is out of precisely such ...
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... poets and critics who were gathered about Maecenas , greatly as it stimulated him , and the lasting friendship with ... poem , without wit or real humor , unpleasantly personal and with no marked attractiveness of style . Of the second ...
... poets and critics who were gathered about Maecenas , greatly as it stimulated him , and the lasting friendship with ... poem , without wit or real humor , unpleasantly personal and with no marked attractiveness of style . Of the second ...
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... poems as Epodes 4 , 7 , 9 , and 16 . But these strongly emotional verses look backward to the tem- pestuous past ; they express the attitude of the obscure and defeated republican , struggling with circumstances and not yet in harmony ...
... poems as Epodes 4 , 7 , 9 , and 16 . But these strongly emotional verses look backward to the tem- pestuous past ; they express the attitude of the obscure and defeated republican , struggling with circumstances and not yet in harmony ...
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... poets whose writings have survived to our times , a long array of men of lesser rank , not undistinguished among their contempo- raries , and undoubtedly writers of merit . And below them was the crowd of poets and historians and ...
... poets whose writings have survived to our times , a long array of men of lesser rank , not undistinguished among their contempo- raries , and undoubtedly writers of merit . And below them was the crowd of poets and historians and ...
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... poets and as the most conspicuous figure , next to Vergil , in the literature of his time . This position his poems retained after his death ; they were universally read and were used as text - books in schools . Critical and learned ...
... poets and as the most conspicuous figure , next to Vergil , in the literature of his time . This position his poems retained after his death ; they were universally read and were used as text - books in schools . Critical and learned ...
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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.