Thirteen Satires of Juvenal, Volume 1

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Macmillan, 1893

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Page xxviii - ... that more than half the disease which embitters the middle and latter part of life is due to avoidable errors in diet...
Page 332 - His thoughts are sharper, his indignation against vice is more vehement; his spirit has more of the commonwealth genius; he treats tyranny, and all the vices attending it, as they deserve, with the utmost rigour...
Page 404 - Thou hast the ponds that pay thee tribute fish, Fat aged carps that run into thy net, And pikes, now weary their own kind to eat, As loth the second draught or cast to stay, Officiously at first, themselves betray ; Bright eels that emulate them, leap on land, Before the fisher, or into his hand.
Page 183 - Lucus erat, quem medium ex opaco specu fons perenni rigabat aqua. Quo quia se persaepe Numa sine arbitris velut ad congressum deae inferebat, Camenis eum lucum sacravit, quod earum ibi concilia cum coniuge sua Egeria essent.
Page 15 - exclamat : ' cuius aceto^ Cuius conche tumes ? quis tecum sectile porrum Sutor et elixi vervecis labra comedit? Nil mihi respondes ? Aut die, aut accipe calcem ! Ede, ubi consistas : in qua te quaero proseucha...
Page 106 - Veios oppugnarunt. eos tu, quantum in te fuit, novo scelere vicisti ; ego Romanis artibus, virtute opere armis, sicut Veios, vincam." denudatum deinde eum, manibus post tergum illigatis, reducendum Falerios pueris tradidit ; virgasque eis, quibus proditorem agerent in urbem verberantes, dedit.
Page 326 - Iratus : quis enim invitum servare laboret ? Hoc quoque te manet, ut pueros elementa docentem Occupet extremis in vicis balba senectus.
Page 331 - Dealer* but never more than pleases. Add to this, that his thoughts are as just as those of Horace, and much more elevated. His expressions are sonorous and more noble ; his verse more numerous, and his words are suitable to his thoughts, sublime and lofty.
Page 3 - Pyrrha puellas, 85 quidquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, gaudia, discursus, nostri farrago libelli est.
Page 73 - Moyses, non monstrare vias eadem nisi sacra colenti, quaesitum ad fontem solos deducere verpos.

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