Sermones: the satires of HoraceMacmillan, 1899 - 410 pages |
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... verse of the vices and follies of men . No other field of poetry , he says , seemed open to him . Epic poetry was occupied by Varius and Valgius : bucolic poetry by Virgil : Asinius Pollio was trying to revive tragedy : Fundanius was ...
... verse of the vices and follies of men . No other field of poetry , he says , seemed open to him . Epic poetry was occupied by Varius and Valgius : bucolic poetry by Virgil : Asinius Pollio was trying to revive tragedy : Fundanius was ...
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... verse of the vices and follies of men . No other field of poetry , he says , seemed open to him . Epic poetry was occupied by Varius and Valgius : bucolic poetry by Virgil : Asinius Pollio was trying to revive tragedy : Fundanius was ...
... verse of the vices and follies of men . No other field of poetry , he says , seemed open to him . Epic poetry was occupied by Varius and Valgius : bucolic poetry by Virgil : Asinius Pollio was trying to revive tragedy : Fundanius was ...
Page viii
... verse . In Horace also , as has been noticed , the fifth Satire of the first Book ‡ and the sixth of the second , retain traces of the miscellaneous character of early satire . Even Juvenal , in talking of the hotchpotch § which he is ...
... verse . In Horace also , as has been noticed , the fifth Satire of the first Book ‡ and the sixth of the second , retain traces of the miscellaneous character of early satire . Even Juvenal , in talking of the hotchpotch § which he is ...
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... verse . Horace never seems to have mastered Virgil's art of happily blending spondees and dactyls . He is careless as to caesura , often having only the hepthemimeral . The terminating of his verse in quadrisyllables , pentasyllables ...
... verse . Horace never seems to have mastered Virgil's art of happily blending spondees and dactyls . He is careless as to caesura , often having only the hepthemimeral . The terminating of his verse in quadrisyllables , pentasyllables ...
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... verses prefixed to I. IO . Keller and Holder's principle of grouping the mss . into three great divisions is , no doubt , based on a sound foundation , although a given ms . cannot often be assigned with certainty to any of the three ...
... verses prefixed to I. IO . Keller and Holder's principle of grouping the mss . into three great divisions is , no doubt , based on a sound foundation , although a given ms . cannot often be assigned with certainty to any of the three ...
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Page 4 - ... unguibus et pugnis, dein fustibus atque ita porro pugnabant armis, quae post fabricaverat usus, donec verba, quibus voces sensusque notarent, nominaque invenere; dehinc absistere bello, oppida coeperunt munire et ponere leges, ne quis fur esset neu latro neu quis adulter.
Page 352 - Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 36 - Et Laberi mimos ut pulchra poemata mirer. Ergo non satis est, risu diducere rictum Auditoris...
Page 83 - Hoc erat in votis : modus agri non ita magnus, Hortus ubi et tecto vicinus jugis aquae fons Et paulum silvae super his foret. Auctius atque Di melius fecere. Bene est. Nil amplius oro, Maia nate, nisi ut propria haec mihi munera faxis.
Page 6 - Eupolis atque Cratinus Aristophanesque poetae, Atque alii, quorum comoedia prisca virorum est, Si quis erat dignus describi. quod malus ac fur, Quod moechus foret aut sicarius aut alioqui Famosus, multa cum libertate notabant.
Page lix - quia tanti quantum habeas sis.' quid facias illi ? iubeas miserum esse, libenter quatenus id facit : ut quidam memoratur Athenis sordidus ac dives, populi contemnere voces 65 sic solitus : ' populus me sibilat ; at mihi plaudo ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in area.
Page lxi - Est modus in rebus, sunt certi denique fines, Quos ultra citraque nequit consistere rectum.
Page 234 - Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. With them I take delight in weal And seek relief in woe; And while I understand and feel How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedew'd With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
Page 8 - ... agedum, pauca accipe contra. primum ego me illorum dederim quibus esse poetas excerpam numero: neque enim concludere versum 40 dixeris esse satis; neque si qui scribat uti nos sermoni propiora, putes hunc esse poetam, ingenium cui sit, cui mens divinior atque os magna sonaturum, des nominis huius honorem.
Page 6 - Hinc omnis pendet Lucilius, hosce secutus Mutatis tantum pedibus numerisque, facetus, Emunctae naris, durus componere versus. Nam fuit hoc vitiosus : in hora saepe ducentos, Ut magnum, versus dictabat stans pede in uno.