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 1N. Bliss, R. Bliss, and R. Bliss, Jun., 1807 |
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... better than Heathen Rome without it , is not for me to determine : but I fear , that the perusal of Juvenal will furnish us with too serious a reason to ob- serve , that , not only modern Rome , but every metropolis in the Christian ...
... better than Heathen Rome without it , is not for me to determine : but I fear , that the perusal of Juvenal will furnish us with too serious a reason to ob- serve , that , not only modern Rome , but every metropolis in the Christian ...
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... I have so studiously avoided through the rest of the work , because the i teral sense of these is better obscured than explained , especially to young minds . the hearers depart as ignorant of the merit of the PREFACE . vii.
... I have so studiously avoided through the rest of the work , because the i teral sense of these is better obscured than explained , especially to young minds . the hearers depart as ignorant of the merit of the PREFACE . vii.
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... better known to him , than to me 5 . The grove of Mars , and the den of Vulcan near The Eolian rocks : what the winds can do : what ghosts Eacus may be tormenting : from whence another could convey the gold .10 by the description of it ...
... better known to him , than to me 5 . The grove of Mars , and the den of Vulcan near The Eolian rocks : what the winds can do : what ghosts Eacus may be tormenting : from whence another could convey the gold .10 by the description of it ...
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... better in a law - suit . The pro- vince of Africa had sued Marius , and had carried the cause against him , but had still reason to deplore her losses : for though Marius was sentenced to pay an immense fine , which came out of what he ...
... better in a law - suit . The pro- vince of Africa had sued Marius , and had carried the cause against him , but had still reason to deplore her losses : for though Marius was sentenced to pay an immense fine , which came out of what he ...
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... better Locusta . ] This Locusta was a vile woman , skilful in preparing poisons . She helped Nero to poison Britannicus , the son of Claudius and Messalina ; and Agrippina to dispatch Claudius . The woman alluded to by Juvenal 1. 69. he ...
... better Locusta . ] This Locusta was a vile woman , skilful in preparing poisons . She helped Nero to poison Britannicus , the son of Claudius and Messalina ; and Agrippina to dispatch Claudius . The woman alluded to by Juvenal 1. 69. he ...
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Page 347 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Page 218 - O demens, ita servus homo est? nil fecerit, esto: Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione voluntas.
Page 234 - Audio, quid veteres olim moneatis amici: Pone seram, cohibe: sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes ? cauta est et ab illis incipit uxor.
Page 192 - Credo Pudicitiam Saturno rege moratam in terris visamque diu, cum frigida parvas praeberet spelunca domos, ignemque Laremque et pecus et dominos communi clauderet umbra...
Page 148 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young: The jolly god in triumph comes; Sound the trumpets, beat the drums...
Page vi - The satyrical Poets, Horace, Juvenal, and Persius, may contribute wonderfully to give a man a detestation of vice, and a contempt of the common methods of mankind; which they have set out in such true colours, that they must give a very generous sense to those who delight in reading them often. Persius his second satyr may well pass for one of the best lectures in divinity.
Page 220 - Is there any woman that blushes at divorce now that certain illustrious and noble ladies reckon their years, not by the number of consuls, but by the number of their husbands...
Page 218 - Pone crucem servo: meruit quo crimine servus Supplicium ? quis testis adest ? quis detulit ? audi : Nulla unquam de morte hominis cunctatio longa est.
Page 76 - Dum nova canities, dum prima et recta senectus, Dum superest Lachesi, quod torqueat, et pedibus me Porto meis, nullo dextram subeunte bacillo.
Page 50 - Thus and no farther shall my passion stray ; " The first crime past, compels us on to more, " And guilt proves fate, which was but choice before.