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Page ix
... Satire : In cases of difficulty I have not been able to rely upon his judg- ment . Orelli has given the text , scholia , and many of the various readings of Persius in his Eclogae Poetarum Latinorum . His text is good , and I have never ...
... Satire : In cases of difficulty I have not been able to rely upon his judg- ment . Orelli has given the text , scholia , and many of the various readings of Persius in his Eclogae Poetarum Latinorum . His text is good , and I have never ...
Page xiii
... Satires are very slight . There are several ancient biographies to be found in various MSS . of the Satires , one of ... Satire of a few verses on Paris the pantomimus , and a poet of his , who was puffed up with his paltry six months ...
... Satires are very slight . There are several ancient biographies to be found in various MSS . of the Satires , one of ... Satire of a few verses on Paris the pantomimus , and a poet of his , who was puffed up with his paltry six months ...
Page xiv
... satire after middle life ; that his first attempt was an epigram upon Paris the pantomimus ; that he was encouraged by the success of this production to write Satires on a larger scale , which at first he concealed , but afterwards read ...
... satire after middle life ; that his first attempt was an epigram upon Paris the pantomimus ; that he was encouraged by the success of this production to write Satires on a larger scale , which at first he concealed , but afterwards read ...
Page xv
... Satire was written in the reign of Trajan , or early in that of Hadrian ( see note ) . In v . 407 of the same Satire , Lipsius traces a reference to the reduc- tion of Armenia to the condition of a Roman province , by the same emperor ...
... Satire was written in the reign of Trajan , or early in that of Hadrian ( see note ) . In v . 407 of the same Satire , Lipsius traces a reference to the reduc- tion of Armenia to the condition of a Roman province , by the same emperor ...
Page xvi
... Satire " Neronem palpat " is not worthy of notice . The fifteenth Satire turns upon an event said to have happened " nuper Consule Junio " ( v . 27 ) ' . It may not be possible to say with certainty which consul Junius he refers to ...
... Satire " Neronem palpat " is not worthy of notice . The fifteenth Satire turns upon an event said to have happened " nuper Consule Junio " ( v . 27 ) ' . It may not be possible to say with certainty which consul Junius he refers to ...
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