Thirteen satires of Juvenal, Volume 1

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Macmillan, 1893 - Verse satire, Latin

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Page 327 - When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, If Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.
Page xxviii - ... that more than half the disease which embitters the middle and latter part of life is due to avoidable errors in diet...
Page 105 - Templa, quamvis sciret etiam proconsulibus decerni solere, in nulla tamen provincia nisi communi suo Romaeque nomine recepit. Nam in urbe quidem pertinacissime abstinuit hoc honore; atque etiam argenteas statuas olim sibi positas conflavit omnis exque iis 2 aureas cortinas Apollini Palatino dedicavit.
Page 404 - Thou hast the ponds that pay thee tribute fish, Fat aged carps that run into thy net, And pikes, now weary their own kind to eat, As loth the second draught or cast to stay, Officiously at first, themselves betray ; Bright eels that emulate them, leap on land, Before the fisher, or into his hand.
Page 175 - Tu nihil invita dices faciesve Minerva ; 385 Id tibi judicium est, ea mens ; si quid tamen olim Scripseris, in Maeci descendat judicis aures Et patris et nostras, nonumque prematur in annum : Membranis intus positis delere licebit, Quod non edideris ; nescit vox missa reverti.
Page 442 - Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise ; To some a dry rehearsal was assign'd, And others (harder still) he paid in kind.
Page 73 - Moyses, non monstrare vias eadem nisi sacra colenti, quaesitum ad fontem solos deducere verpos.
Page 41 - Omnibus in terris, quae sunt a Gadibus usque Auroram et Gangen, pauci dinoscere possunt vera bona atque illis multum diversa, remota erroris nebula.
Page 10 - ... atque recens linum ostendit non una cicatrix ? Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se quam quod ridiculos homines facit. "Exeat...
Page 305 - Non solum autem dicendo, sed etiam faciendo quaedam , lacrimas movemus : unde et producere ipsos , qui periclitentur , squalidos atque deformes , et liberos eorum ac parentes...

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