A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius: With Copious Explanatory Notes : by which These Difficult Satires are Rendered Easy and Familiar to the Reader, Volume 2Brett Smith and Son, Mary Street, 1820 |
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... answered ? —votique peracti . The right and left were ominous dexter - a - um , therefore , signifies lucky , favourable , fortunate , propitious — as læ- vus - a - um , unlucky , inconvenient , unsea- sonable . Tam dextro pede is ...
... answered ? —votique peracti . The right and left were ominous dexter - a - um , therefore , signifies lucky , favourable , fortunate , propitious — as læ- vus - a - um , unlucky , inconvenient , unsea- sonable . Tam dextro pede is ...
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... answered are often fatal . Comp . 1. 7 , 8 . 56. Precipitates some ] viz . Into ruin and destruction . 57. Catalogue , & c . ] Pagina , in its proper and literal sense , signifies a page of a book , but here alludes to a plate , or ...
... answered are often fatal . Comp . 1. 7 , 8 . 56. Precipitates some ] viz . Into ruin and destruction . 57. Catalogue , & c . ] Pagina , in its proper and literal sense , signifies a page of a book , but here alludes to a plate , or ...
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... answered their cries for de- liverance , by saying , that the Subah was lain down to sleep , and nobody dared to wake him . 163. Disturbed human affairs . ] Miscuit , disordered , put into confusion , a great part of the world , by his ...
... answered their cries for de- liverance , by saying , that the Subah was lain down to sleep , and nobody dared to wake him . 163. Disturbed human affairs . ] Miscuit , disordered , put into confusion , a great part of the world , by his ...
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... answers the example brought for asking beautiful children , by the instance of Lucretia , whose beauty proved her un- doing . She was a beautiful Roman lady , the daughter of Lucretius , prefect of the city , and wife of Tarquinius Col ...
... answers the example brought for asking beautiful children , by the instance of Lucretia , whose beauty proved her un- doing . She was a beautiful Roman lady , the daughter of Lucretius , prefect of the city , and wife of Tarquinius Col ...
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... answer- 347. Permit the gods , & c . ] Leave all to the gods ; they know what is best for us , and what is most suitable to our circumstances and situations . 349. Instead of pleasant things , & c ] They can , though we cannot , foresee ...
... answer- 347. Permit the gods , & c . ] Leave all to the gods ; they know what is best for us , and what is most suitable to our circumstances and situations . 349. Instead of pleasant things , & c ] They can , though we cannot , foresee ...
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Page 214 - ... quo didicisse, nisi hoc fermentum et quae semel intus innata est rupto iecore exierit caprificus?' 25 en pallor seniumque! o mores, usque adeone scire tuum nihil est nisi te scire hoc sciat alter? 'at pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier "hic est." ten cirratorum centum dictata fuisse pro nihilo pendes?
Page 270 - Quo fretus? die hoc, magni pupille Pericli. Scilicet ingenium et rerum prudentia velox Ante pilos venit, dicenda tacendaque calles. 5 Ergo ubi commota fervet plebecula bile, Fert animus calidae fecisse silentia turbae Maiestate manus. Quid deinde loquere? "Quirites, Hoc puta non iustum est, illud male, rectius illud.
Page 117 - Hast practised on man's life: close pent-up guilts, Rive your concealing continents, and cry These dreadful summoners grace.
Page 266 - Tange, miser, venas et pone in pectore dextram, ,,nil calet hie;" summosque pedes attinge manusque, ,,non frigent.
Page 36 - Virginia.] A Roman virgin exceedingly beautiful, whom her own father, to prevent her being exposed to the lust of Appius, one of the Decemviri, stabbed in the middle of the forum.
Page 250 - O miser ; inque dies ultra miser, huccine rerum. Venimus ? at cur non potius, teneroque columbo, Et similis regum pueris, pappare minutum Poscis, et iratus mammae lallare recusas ? An tali studeam calamo ? cui verba ? quid istas Succinis ambages ? tibi luditur : effluis amcns.
Page 44 - Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Page 214 - Intrant, et tremulo scalpuntur ubi intima versu. Tun', vetule, auriculis alienis colligis escas? Auriculis, quibus et dicas cute perditus, ohe?
Page 258 - Discite, o miseri, et causas cognoscite rerum : Quid sumus, et quidnam victuri gignimur; ordo Quis datus, aut...
Page 22 - Bithyno libeat vigilare tyranno. finem animae quae res humanas miscuit olim, non gladii, non saxa dabunt nee tela, sed ille Cannarum vindex et tanti sanguinis ultor 165 anulus. i demens et saevas curre per Alpes, ut pueris placeas et declamatio fias...