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... ARGUMENT . Maecenas , my protector , my pride , various are the aims of men . The Greek seeks glory from the race ; the lords of the world are supremely happy , one in the honors of the state , the other in his well - filled barns . The ...
... ARGUMENT . Maecenas , my protector , my pride , various are the aims of men . The Greek seeks glory from the race ; the lords of the world are supremely happy , one in the honors of the state , the other in his well - filled barns . The ...
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... mentioned in the intro- duction to that Ode , the feeling with which Horace entered into the mission of Augustus as the reformer will be better understood . ARGUMENT . - Portents enough hath Jove sent upon the 242 NOTES .
... mentioned in the intro- duction to that Ode , the feeling with which Horace entered into the mission of Augustus as the reformer will be better understood . ARGUMENT . - Portents enough hath Jove sent upon the 242 NOTES .
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with English notes Horace, Arthur John Macleane Reginald Heber Chase. ARGUMENT . - Portents enough hath Jove sent upon the earth , making it afraid lest a new deluge were coming , as the Tiber rolled back from its mouth , threatening ...
with English notes Horace, Arthur John Macleane Reginald Heber Chase. ARGUMENT . - Portents enough hath Jove sent upon the earth , making it afraid lest a new deluge were coming , as the Tiber rolled back from its mouth , threatening ...
Page 246
... ARGUMENT . - We commit to thee Virgil , O thou ship ! deliver him safe on the shores of Attica , and preserve him whom I love as my life ; and may the skies and winds prosper thee . Hard and rash was the man who first tempted the sea ...
... ARGUMENT . - We commit to thee Virgil , O thou ship ! deliver him safe on the shores of Attica , and preserve him whom I love as my life ; and may the skies and winds prosper thee . Hard and rash was the man who first tempted the sea ...
Page 248
... ARGUMENT . The winter is thawing ; the spring is returning ; the ships are being launched ; the herds quit their stalls and the ploughman his fire- side ; and the meadows are no longer white with frost . Venus and the Graces are leading ...
... ARGUMENT . The winter is thawing ; the spring is returning ; the ships are being launched ; the herds quit their stalls and the ploughman his fire- side ; and the meadows are no longer white with frost . Venus and the Graces are leading ...
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Page 343 - For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
Page 233 - Natura fieret laudabile carmen an arte Quaesitum est : ego nee Studium sine divite vena Nee rude quid possit video ingenium ; alterius sic 410 Altera poscit opem res et conjurat amice.
Page 223 - HIIMANO capiti cervicem pictor equinam Jungere si velit, et varias inducere plumas Undique collatis membris, ut turpiter atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne, Spectatum admissi risum teneatis, amici...
Page 231 - Verbaque provisam rem non invita sequentur. Qui didicit, patriae quid debeat et quid amicis, Quo sit amore parens, quo frater amandus et hospes...
Page 227 - Conversis studiis aetas animusque virilis quaerit opes et amicitias, inservit honori, commisisse cavet quod mox mutare laboret. Multa senem circumveniunt incommoda, vel quod quaerit et inventis miser abstinet ac timet uti, 170 vel quod res omnes timide gelideque ministrat, dilator, spe longus, iners avidusque futuri, difficilis, querulus, laudator temporis acti se puero, castigator censorque minorum.
Page 181 - ... solve senescentem mature sanus equum, ne peccet ad extremum ridendus et ilia ducat.
Page 233 - Tu nihil invita dices faciesve Minerva; 385 id tibi iudicium est, ea mens. Si quid tamen olim scripseris in Maeci descendat iudicis aures et patris et nostras, nonumque' prematur in annum, membranis intus positis : delere licebit quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.
Page 302 - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Page 230 - Graeca nocturna versate manu, versate diurna. at vestri proavi Plautinos et numeros et 270 laudavere sales ; nimium patienter utrumque, ne dicam stulte, mirati, si modo ego et vos scimus inurbanum lepido seponere dicto, legitimumque sonum digitis callemus et aure.
Page 347 - Dan shall be a serpent by the way, An adder in the path, That biteth the horse heels, So that his rider shall fall backward.