Thirteen Satires of Juvenal |
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Page 6
... Honour , Victory and Virtue , and Concord , the goddess who twitters when we salute her nest . But when chief magistrates calculate at the year's end what the dole brings in , how much it : adds to their income , what will retainers do ...
... Honour , Victory and Virtue , and Concord , the goddess who twitters when we salute her nest . But when chief magistrates calculate at the year's end what the dole brings in , how much it : adds to their income , what will retainers do ...
Page 17
... honoured worships . In Rome men dress in a showy style beyond their means , and the " more " than we require we now and again borrow from a neighbour's coffer . The vice is universal . Here we live in pretentious beggary— every one of ...
... honoured worships . In Rome men dress in a showy style beyond their means , and the " more " than we require we now and again borrow from a neighbour's coffer . The vice is universal . Here we live in pretentious beggary— every one of ...
Page 19
... honoured ornaments of " slippered " gods ; and another again will offer books and cases , and with them a Minerva as a centre - piece ; and another a peck of silver . Persicus , the most sumptu- ous of our childless men , improves in ...
... honoured ornaments of " slippered " gods ; and another again will offer books and cases , and with them a Minerva as a centre - piece ; and another a peck of silver . Persicus , the most sumptu- ous of our childless men , improves in ...
Page 25
... honour to the master - stroke , if , by a gift even of such a price , he carried off the first place in a childless old man's will ! He had a still further excuse , if he presented it to his noble mistress , who takes her airing in her ...
... honour to the master - stroke , if , by a gift even of such a price , he carried off the first place in a childless old man's will ! He had a still further excuse , if he presented it to his noble mistress , who takes her airing in her ...
Page 37
... honours thus - it is you who are his brother ! But if you would be yourself a patron and your patron's lord , then ... honoured friend . But , as it is , your Mygale may be brought to bed , and set a triplet of boys upon their father's ...
... honours thus - it is you who are his brother ! But if you would be yourself a patron and your patron's lord , then ... honoured friend . But , as it is , your Mygale may be brought to bed , and set a triplet of boys upon their father's ...
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