A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius: With Copious Explanatory Notes...Brett Smith and son, 1813 |
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... Lives of the Roman Poets ) is inimit- able for the excellence of its morality , and sublime sentiments . Line . 1. Gades . ] An island without the Streights of Gibraltar in the south part of Spain , divided from the continent by a small ...
... Lives of the Roman Poets ) is inimit- able for the excellence of its morality , and sublime sentiments . Line . 1. Gades . ] An island without the Streights of Gibraltar in the south part of Spain , divided from the continent by a small ...
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... lives , the gods were displeased at their birth , and always took a part against them . 130. His father . ] Demosthenes is said to have been the son of a blacksmith at Athens . Of a burning mass . ss . ] Large masses of iron , when red ...
... lives , the gods were displeased at their birth , and always took a part against them . 130. His father . ] Demosthenes is said to have been the son of a blacksmith at Athens . Of a burning mass . ss . ] Large masses of iron , when red ...
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... lives might have been saved ; for , being put there by order of the Subah , who alone could order their release , the officers of that prince only answered their cries for deliverance , by saying , that the Subah was lain down to sleep ...
... lives might have been saved ; for , being put there by order of the Subah , who alone could order their release , the officers of that prince only answered their cries for deliverance , by saying , that the Subah was lain down to sleep ...
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... ) called urns . .2.11 243. This pain , & c . ] This is the sad lot of long - lived people , as it must be their fate to out - live many of their friends . Which has stood for many years in the prison of 36 SAT . X JUVENALIS SATIRÆ .
... ) called urns . .2.11 243. This pain , & c . ] This is the sad lot of long - lived people , as it must be their fate to out - live many of their friends . Which has stood for many years in the prison of 36 SAT . X JUVENALIS SATIRÆ .
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... live nine times the age of a man . Nestor ( says the poet ) stands second to this long - lived bird . 249. With the ... lives of men . One held the distaff , another spun the thread , and the third cut it . q . d . How might he complain ...
... live nine times the age of a man . Nestor ( says the poet ) stands second to this long - lived bird . 249. With the ... lives of men . One held the distaff , another spun the thread , and the third cut it . q . d . How might he complain ...
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Page 302 - An tali studeam calamo ?" cui verba ? quid istas succinis ambages ? tibi luditur. effluis amens, 20 contemnere : sonat vitium percussa maligne respondet viridi non cocta fidelia limo. udum et molle lutum es, nunc nunc properandus et acri fingendus sine fine rota. sed rure paterno est tibi far modicum, purum et sine labe salinum 25 (quid metuas ?) cultrixque foci secura patella.
Page 344 - Tecum etenim longos memini consumere soles, Et tecum primas epulis decerpere noctes. Unum opus et requiem pariter disponimus ambo, Atque verecunda laxamus seria mensa. Non equidem hoc dubites, amborum foedere certo 45 Consentire dies, et ab uno sidere duci.
Page 288 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood, Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo 50 The means of weakness and debility ; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 266 - ... ait Pedio. Pedius quid? crimina rasis 85 librat in antithetis, doctas posuisse figuras laudatur: 'bellum hoc.' hoc bellum? an, Romule, ceves? men moveat?
Page 306 - Imus praecipites, quam si sibi dicat, et intus Palleat infelix quod proxima nesciat uxor? Saepe oculos, memini, tangebam parvus olivo, Grandia si nollem morituri verba Catonis Discere, non sano multum laudanda magistro, Quae pater adductis sudans audiret amicis. Jure etenim id summum, quid dexter senio ferret Scire, erat in voto ; damnosa canicula quantum Raderet ; angustae collo non fallier oreae ; 50 Neu quis callidior buxum torquere flagello.
Page 85 - If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work...
Page 109 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Page 258 - Naribus indulges. An erit, qui velle recuset Os populi meruisse; et, cedro digna locutus, Linquere nee scombros metuentia carmina, nee thus?
Page 340 - His ego centenas ausim deposcere voces Ut, quantum mihi te sinuoso in pectore fixi, Voce traham pura, totumque hoc verba resignent, Quod latet arcana non enarrabile flora.
Page 317 - Gadibus iungas et uterque Poenus Serviat uni. Crescit indulgens sibi dirus hydrops Nee sitim pellit, nisi causa morbi Fugerit venis et aquosus albo 15 Corpore languor.