The Works of Horace: With English Notes, Critical and ExplanatoryHarper & Brothers, 1840 - 681 pages |
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Page ix
... nature , his scanty inheritance was ruined or confiscated , and the political hori- zon seemed unpropitious to any hope which the young Ve- nusian might have entertained of future advancement . Na- turally indolent , and of a character ...
... nature , his scanty inheritance was ruined or confiscated , and the political hori- zon seemed unpropitious to any hope which the young Ve- nusian might have entertained of future advancement . Na- turally indolent , and of a character ...
Page x
... nature , would of themselves have secured to Horace the confidence and affection of his friend . After this auspicious change in his fortunes , the horizon of the poet , like the glassy surface of his own Bandusian fountain , was all ...
... nature , would of themselves have secured to Horace the confidence and affection of his friend . After this auspicious change in his fortunes , the horizon of the poet , like the glassy surface of his own Bandusian fountain , was all ...
Page xiv
... nature of his subject . Whether this opi- nion be correct or not must be considered elsewhere . It will only be requisite here to state , that the peculiar character of his hexameter versification will render it unnecessary for us to ...
... nature of his subject . Whether this opi- nion be correct or not must be considered elsewhere . It will only be requisite here to state , that the peculiar character of his hexameter versification will render it unnecessary for us to ...
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... nature . The grammarians , perceiv- ing that Horace had more than once used the word carmen to designate this kind of poetry , ventured to place it at the head of his odes , and their example has been followed by almost all succeeding ...
... nature . The grammarians , perceiv- ing that Horace had more than once used the word carmen to designate this kind of poetry , ventured to place it at the head of his odes , and their example has been followed by almost all succeeding ...
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... natural day was therefore devoted to affairs of business , or serious employment , and was called in consequence dies solidus . Hence the vo- luptuary , who begins to quaff the old Massic before the accustomed hour , is said " to take ...
... natural day was therefore devoted to affairs of business , or serious employment , and was called in consequence dies solidus . Hence the vo- luptuary , who begins to quaff the old Massic before the accustomed hour , is said " to take ...
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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.