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Page ix
... poet . Jahn has taken great pains to show that they are the work of a later Cornutus of the tenth century , who wrote a com- mentary also on Juvenal . If this be so , he may have used notes of earlier Grammarians than himself without ...
... poet . Jahn has taken great pains to show that they are the work of a later Cornutus of the tenth century , who wrote a com- mentary also on Juvenal . If this be so , he may have used notes of earlier Grammarians than himself without ...
Page xiii
... poet has been gathered from his own pen . His poems form a gallery of contemporary portraits , including his own picture in every stage of life . It is not so with Juvenal . He had to deal with vice and folly more than a century older ...
... poet has been gathered from his own pen . His poems form a gallery of contemporary portraits , including his own picture in every stage of life . It is not so with Juvenal . He had to deal with vice and folly more than a century older ...
Page xvi
... poet had been recalled by the emperor who sent him away , for it was written shortly after the consulship of Junius , and there- fore , if Sabinus be the man , in the middle or towards the beginning of Domitian's reign . But it will be ...
... poet had been recalled by the emperor who sent him away , for it was written shortly after the consulship of Junius , and there- fore , if Sabinus be the man , in the middle or towards the beginning of Domitian's reign . But it will be ...
Page xx
... poet had not ventured to make them public . He continued to write freely during Trajan's reign , which ended A.D. 117 , when Juvenal was about sixty , and during the early years of Hadrian's reign , that is , till about A.D. 120. During ...
... poet had not ventured to make them public . He continued to write freely during Trajan's reign , which ended A.D. 117 , when Juvenal was about sixty , and during the early years of Hadrian's reign , that is , till about A.D. 120. During ...
Page xxi
... poet should be killed , as the Grammarian says , he would not have been sent to join the troops in Britain for that purpose . The inscription quoted by Hermann , if genuine , and if it refers to our Juvenal , proves nothing in favour of ...
... poet should be killed , as the Grammarian says , he would not have been sent to join the troops in Britain for that purpose . The inscription quoted by Hermann , if genuine , and if it refers to our Juvenal , proves nothing in favour of ...
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Page 26 - There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond, And do a wilful stillness entertain, 90 With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit, As who should say ' I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark...