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Page vii
... writer , who , though never indecent like Catullus and Martial , nor impure in the sense in which much of Juvenal is impure , -was yet undeniably a sen- sualist . The fine sentiment which the poet has himself so well expressed † in ...
... writer , who , though never indecent like Catullus and Martial , nor impure in the sense in which much of Juvenal is impure , -was yet undeniably a sen- sualist . The fine sentiment which the poet has himself so well expressed † in ...
Page viii
... writer as Propertius should be lost , because a few of his verses are pruriently worded or wanton in sentiment . Had I , indeed , been allowed to expurgate , the omission of less than fifty lines would have removed every passage which ...
... writer as Propertius should be lost , because a few of his verses are pruriently worded or wanton in sentiment . Had I , indeed , been allowed to expurgate , the omission of less than fifty lines would have removed every passage which ...
Page ix
... writer . There remains , after all , but a Gallus Priapus . * The truth is , I have no expectation that Propertius will ever become a class - book in our Public Schools through any efforts of mine : and this expectation , as it ...
... writer . There remains , after all , but a Gallus Priapus . * The truth is , I have no expectation that Propertius will ever become a class - book in our Public Schools through any efforts of mine : and this expectation , as it ...
Page xiv
... writer who cannot be thoroughly understood without attentive study of his peculiar style and construc- tions . Of ... writing under the excitement of jealousy and disappointment , he is frequently abrupt and impassioned in his appeals ...
... writer who cannot be thoroughly understood without attentive study of his peculiar style and construc- tions . Of ... writing under the excitement of jealousy and disappointment , he is frequently abrupt and impassioned in his appeals ...
Page xxi
... writer which he did not do for himself . In the Augustan age , as inscriptions incontestably prove , there was not that fixed standard of writing which modern languages generally exhibit : they wrote tristis or tristes ( tristeis ) ...
... writer which he did not do for himself . In the Augustan age , as inscriptions incontestably prove , there was not that fixed standard of writing which modern languages generally exhibit : they wrote tristis or tristes ( tristeis ) ...
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Page 6 - Nec sinere in propriis membra nitere bonis? Crede mihi, non ulla tuae est medicina figurae: Nudus Amor formae non amat artificem.
Page 17 - Fortuna iacere, 25 hanc animam extremae reddere nequitiae. multi longinquo periere in amore libenter, in quorum numero me quoque terra tegat. non ego sum laudi, non natus idoneus armis : hanc me militiam fata subire volunt.
Page 89 - QUICUMQUE ille fuit, puerum qui pinxit Amorem, nonne putas miras hunc habuisse manus? is primum vidit sine sensu vivere amantes, et levibus curis magna perire bona. idem non frustra ventosas addidit alas, 5 fecit et humano corde volare deum: scilicet alterna quoniam iactamur in unda, nostraque non ullis permanet aura locis.
Page 223 - Nox media, et dominae mihi uenit epistula nostrae: Tibure me missa iussit adesse mora, candida qua geminas ostendunt culmina turres, et cadit in patulos nympha Aniena lacus.
Page 9 - Andromede; nec minus assiduis Edonis fessa choreis qualis in herboso concidit Apidano: talis visa mihi mollem spirare quietem Cynthia non certis nixa caput manibus, ebria cum multo traherem vestigia Baccho, et quaterent sera nocte facem pueri.
Page 45 - HAEC certe deserta loca et taciturna querenti, et vacuum Zephyri possidet aura nemus. hic licet occultos proferre impune dolores, si modo sola queant saxa tenere fidem.
Page 168 - Musa triumphat equis, 10 et mecum in curru parvi vectantur Amores, scriptorumque meas turba secuta rotas. quid frustra missis in me certatis habenis ? non datur ad Musas currere lata via.
Page 250 - Non posse ad patrios sua pila referre Penates : Nempe meam firmant nunc duo busta fidem. Quippe Lupercus, equi dum saucia protegit ora, Heu sibi prolapso non bene cavit equo : Gallus at, in castris dum credita signa tuetur, 95 Concidit ante aquilae rostra cruenta suae.
Page 35 - Caucasus arboribus ; non tamen ista meo valeant contendere amori : nescit Amor magnis cedere divitiis. nam sive optatam mecum trahit illa quietem, seu facili totum ducit amore diem...
Page 90 - ... deum: scilicet alterna quoniam iactamur in unda, nostraque non ullis permanet aura locis. et merito hamatis manus est armata sagittis...