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... terms so general as to make them types ; his little pictures are done in few lines , but in lines so expressive that they tell the essential truth about a man . Such a characterization as that of Tigellius in Sat. 1 , 3 or that of ...
... terms so general as to make them types ; his little pictures are done in few lines , but in lines so expressive that they tell the essential truth about a man . Such a characterization as that of Tigellius in Sat. 1 , 3 or that of ...
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... terms are used together to express one general idea . peritus : the patronus , to ― whom friends and clients came at the early morning salutatio to ask advice on business and legal mat- ters . There is a personal touch in this ...
... terms are used together to express one general idea . peritus : the patronus , to ― whom friends and clients came at the early morning salutatio to ask advice on business and legal mat- ters . There is a personal touch in this ...
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... term of the attack of illness ; Epist . 1 , 6 , 28.- frigore : the chill of malaria . corpus : not body , but health , strength . Cf. fractus membra , vs. 5. - adflixit : has dashed one down upon his bed . - adsideat , roget : sit by ...
... term of the attack of illness ; Epist . 1 , 6 , 28.- frigore : the chill of malaria . corpus : not body , but health , strength . Cf. fractus membra , vs. 5. - adflixit : has dashed one down upon his bed . - adsideat , roget : sit by ...
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... terms . carceribus : the stalls in which the chariots stood ready to be started ( missos ) by the raising of the barrier . — rapit ungula : so quatit ungula , Ennius , Ann . 224 Vahl . , Verg . Aen . 8 , 596 , in the same place in the ...
... terms . carceribus : the stalls in which the chariots stood ready to be started ( missos ) by the raising of the barrier . — rapit ungula : so quatit ungula , Ennius , Ann . 224 Vahl . , Verg . Aen . 8 , 596 , in the same place in the ...
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... terms of equality . He had died shortly before the second satire was writ- ten . He is to be distinguished from another Hermogenes Tigel- lius , still alive , also a musician and probably a freedman or adopted son of the former . The ...
... terms of equality . He had died shortly before the second satire was writ- ten . He is to be distinguished from another Hermogenes Tigel- lius , still alive , also a musician and probably a freedman or adopted son of the former . The ...
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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.