A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius: With Explanatory Notes in which These Difficult Satirists are Rendered Easy and Familiar to the Reader, Volume 2N. Bliss, R. Bliss, and R. Bliss, Jun., 1807 |
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... wife : Mævia can stick declaimer . His meaning seems to be , that as all , whether good or bad , wrote poems , why should not he , who had had an education in learning , write as well as they ? 15. Have withdrawn my hand , & c . ] The ...
... wife : Mævia can stick declaimer . His meaning seems to be , that as all , whether good or bad , wrote poems , why should not he , who had had an education in learning , write as well as they ? 15. Have withdrawn my hand , & c . ] The ...
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... wife of Latinus the famous mimic ; she was sent privately by her husband and prostituted to Regulus , in order to avoid some information which Latinus dreaded , and trembled un- der the apprehension of . 37. Can remove you . ] i . e ...
... wife of Latinus the famous mimic ; she was sent privately by her husband and prostituted to Regulus , in order to avoid some information which Latinus dreaded , and trembled un- der the apprehension of . 37. Can remove you . ] i . e ...
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... wife for gain , and thus receives the goods of the adulterer , as the price of her chastity . 56. There is no right to the wife . ] Domitian made a law to for- bid the use of litters ( see note , 1. 32. ) to adulterous wives , and to ...
... wife for gain , and thus receives the goods of the adulterer , as the price of her chastity . 56. There is no right to the wife . ] Domitian made a law to for- bid the use of litters ( see note , 1. 32. ) to adulterous wives , and to ...
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... wife , and appeared publicly in his chariot with him , openly caressing , and making love , as he passed along . The poet humourously speaks of Sporus in the feminine gender . -As the lacerna was principally a man's garment , by ...
... wife , and appeared publicly in his chariot with him , openly caressing , and making love , as he passed along . The poet humourously speaks of Sporus in the feminine gender . -As the lacerna was principally a man's garment , by ...
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... wife of Claudius , who poisoned her husband , that she might make her son Nero emperor . Occurs . ] Meets you in the public street , and thus occurs to the observation of the satirist . Comp . 1. 63 , 4 . 69. Calenian wine . ] Calenum ...
... wife of Claudius , who poisoned her husband , that she might make her son Nero emperor . Occurs . ] Meets you in the public street , and thus occurs to the observation of the satirist . Comp . 1. 63 , 4 . 69. Calenian wine . ] Calenum ...
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