The Works of Horace: With English Notes, Critical and ExplanatoryHarper & Brothers, 1840 - 681 pages |
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... epithet tergeminis is equivalent merely to amplissimis . -9 . Illum . Understand juvat . - 10 . Libycis . One of the principal grana- ries of Rome was the fertile region adjacent to the Syrtis Minor , and called Byzacium or Emporia . It ...
... epithet tergeminis is equivalent merely to amplissimis . -9 . Illum . Understand juvat . - 10 . Libycis . One of the principal grana- ries of Rome was the fertile region adjacent to the Syrtis Minor , and called Byzacium or Emporia . It ...
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... epithet " Cyprian " seems to allude here not so much to the commerce of the island , extensive as it was , as to the excellent quality of its naval timber . The poet , it will be perceived , uses the expressions Cypria , Myrtoum ...
... epithet " Cyprian " seems to allude here not so much to the commerce of the island , extensive as it was , as to the excellent quality of its naval timber . The poet , it will be perceived , uses the expressions Cypria , Myrtoum ...
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... epithet of the Tiber : " Yellow is an exceed- ingly undescriptive translation of that tawny colour , that mixture of red , brown , grey and yellow , which should answer to flavus here ; but I may not deviate from the established phrase ...
... epithet of the Tiber : " Yellow is an exceed- ingly undescriptive translation of that tawny colour , that mixture of red , brown , grey and yellow , which should answer to flavus here ; but I may not deviate from the established phrase ...
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... epithet graves alludes to the defeat of Crassus , and the check of Marc Antony.- Perirent . For perituri fuissent . - 23 . Vitio parentum rara juventus . " Pos- terity thinned through the guilt of their fathers . " Alluding to the ...
... epithet graves alludes to the defeat of Crassus , and the check of Marc Antony.- Perirent . For perituri fuissent . - 23 . Vitio parentum rara juventus . " Pos- terity thinned through the guilt of their fathers . " Alluding to the ...
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... epithet tristes ( " weeping , " " rainy , " ) applied to them by the poet.— 15. Adria . Some commentators insist , that Adria is here used for the sea in general , because , as the Adriatic faces the south - east , the remark of Ho ...
... epithet tristes ( " weeping , " " rainy , " ) applied to them by the poet.— 15. Adria . Some commentators insist , that Adria is here used for the sea in general , because , as the Adriatic faces the south - east , the remark of Ho ...
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Page 96 - Nutrita faustis sub penetralibus, Posset, quid Augusti paternus In pueros animus Nerones. Fortes creantur fortibus et bonis ; Est in juvencis, est in equis patrum 30 Virtus ; neque imbellem feroces Progenerant aquilae columbam.
Page 90 - EXEGI monumentum aere perennius Regalique situ pyramidum altius, Quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens Possit diruere aut innumerabilis Annorum series et fuga temporum. Non omnis moriar, multaque pars mei Vitabit Libitinam. Usque ego postera Crescam laude recens, dum Capitolium Scandet cum tacita Virgine pontifex.
Page 101 - Diffugere nives, redeunt iam gramina campis arboribusque comae ; mutat terra vices et decrescentia ripas flumina praetereunt; Gratia cum Nymphis geminisque sororibus audet...
Page 29 - Parcus deorum cultor et infrequens, insanientis dum sapientiae consultus erro, nunc retrorsum vela dare atque iterare cursus cogor relictos : namque Diespiter, 5 igni corusco nubila dividens plerumque, per purum tonantis egit equos volucremque currum, quo bruta tellus et vaga flumina, quo Styx et invisi horrida Taenari 10 sedes Atlanteusque finis concutitur.
Page 66 - Portare fustes, sol ubi montium Mutaret umbras et juga demeret Bobus fatigatis, amicum Tempus agens abeunte curru.
Page 93 - Tendit, Antoni, quotiens in altos Nubium tractus : ego, apis Matinae More modoque, Grata carpentis thyma per laborem Plurimum circa nemus uvidique 30 Tiburis ripas operosa parvus Carmina fingo.
Page 48 - Linquenda tellus et domus et placens Uxor, neque harum, quas colis, arborum Te praeter invisas cupressos Ulla brevem dominum sequetur.
Page 50 - Tithonum minuit senectus, 30 et mihi forsan, tibi quod negarit, porriget hora. te greges centum Siculaeque circum mugiunt vaccae, tibi tollit hinnitum apta quadrigis equa, te bis Afro 35 murice tinctae vestiunt lanae : mihi parva rura et spiritum Graiae tenuem Camenae Parca non mendax dedit et malignum spernere vulgus.
Page 65 - Aethiops, hie classe formidatus, ille missilibus melior sagittis. fecunda culpae saecula nuptias primum inquinavere et genus et domos; hoc fonte derivata clades in patriam populumque fluxit.
Page 102 - ... non incisa notis marmora publicis, per quae spiritus et vita redit bonis post mortem ducibus, non celeres fugae reiectaeque retrorsum Hannibalis minae, non incendia Carthaginis impiae eius, qui domita nomen ab Africa lucratus rediit, clarius indicant laudes quam Calabrae Pierides: neque, 20 si chartae sileant quod bene feceris, mercedem tuleris.