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... woman ? Women love the stage ; if you marry a wife it will be to make a father of some harpist or flute - player . Or perhaps , like Eppia , the Senator's wife , she will run off to Egypt with a gladiator , leaving home and husband and ...
... woman ? Women love the stage ; if you marry a wife it will be to make a father of some harpist or flute - player . Or perhaps , like Eppia , the Senator's wife , she will run off to Egypt with a gladiator , leaving home and husband and ...
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... woman who is all perfection , and is for ever casting her high qualities in his teeth ? Away with your high ancestry , Cornelia ! away with your Hannibal , your Syphax , and your Carthage ! Re- member the fate of Niobe ! ( 136-183 ...
... woman who is all perfection , and is for ever casting her high qualities in his teeth ? Away with your high ancestry , Cornelia ! away with your Hannibal , your Syphax , and your Carthage ! Re- member the fate of Niobe ! ( 136-183 ...
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... woman at the bottom of it . If Manilia is not a defendant , she is a plaintiff ; she instructs her learned counsel how to adjust his pleas . ( 231-245 . ) Then there is the athletic woman , with her wrappers and her ointments , her ...
... woman at the bottom of it . If Manilia is not a defendant , she is a plaintiff ; she instructs her learned counsel how to adjust his pleas . ( 231-245 . ) Then there is the athletic woman , with her wrappers and her ointments , her ...
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... woman in the street . ( 398-412 . ) More terrible still is the termagant , who loves to lash her poor neighbours ; when a dog disturbs her slumbers , she orders the owner to be thrashed first , and then the dog . She enters the baths ...
... woman in the street . ( 398-412 . ) More terrible still is the termagant , who loves to lash her poor neighbours ; when a dog disturbs her slumbers , she orders the owner to be thrashed first , and then the dog . She enters the baths ...
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... woman looks for a diviner in the Circus , of whom she enquires whether she shall marry the tavern - keeper or the old - clothesman . ( 542–591 . ) Poor women will bear the pangs of childbirth ; but you will rarely find a woman lying ...
... woman looks for a diviner in the Circus , of whom she enquires whether she shall marry the tavern - keeper or the old - clothesman . ( 542–591 . ) Poor women will bear the pangs of childbirth ; but you will rarely find a woman lying ...
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Page 198 - Augustum. iam pridem, ex quo suffragia nulli vendimus, effudit curas; nam qui dabat olim imperium, fasces, legiones, omnia, nunc se continet atque duas tantum res anxius optat, 80 panem et circenses. 'perituros audio multos.
Page 318 - ... quo didicisse, nisi hoc fermentum et quae semel intus innata est rupto iecore exierit caprificus?' 25 en pallor seniumque! o mores, usque adeone scire tuum nihil est nisi te scire hoc sciat alter? 'at pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier "hic est." ten cirratorum centum dictata fuisse pro nihilo pendes?
Page 328 - Omne vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amico Tangit, et admissus circum praecordia ludit, Callidus excusso populum suspendere naso. Men' mutire nefas, nee clam, nee cum scrobe?
Page 220 - ... animum, mortis terrore carentem, qui spatium vitae extremum inter munera ponat naturae, qui ferre queat quoscumque labores, nesciat irasci, cupiat nihil, et potiores 360 Herculis aerumnas credat saevosque labores et Venere et cenis et pluma Sardauapalli.
Page 386 - Jus habet ille sui palpo quem ducit hiantem Cretata ambitio ? Vigila, et cicer ingere large Rixanti populo, nostra ut Floralia possint Aprici meminisse senes...
Page 318 - ... serena ingentis trepidare Titos, cum carmina lumbum 20 intrant et tremulo scalpuntur ubi intima versu. tun, vetule, auriculis alienis colligis escas, articulis quibus et dicas cute perditus 'ohe'?
Page 36 - ... ite, quibus grata est picta lupa barbara mitra. rusticus ille tuus sumit trechedipna, Quirine, et ceromatico fert niceteria collo.
Page 316 - O CURAS hominum, o quantum est in rebus inane ! " "quis leget haec ? " " min tu istud ais ? nemo hercule." " nemo ?
Page 334 - Haud cuivis promptum est murmurque humilesque susurros Tollere de templis et aperto vivere voto. Mens bona, fama, fides...
Page 320 - Quisquis es, o modo quem ex adverso dicere feci, Non ego, quum scribo, si forte quid aptius exit, (Quando haec rara avis est) si quid tamen aptius exit', Laudari metuam ; neque enim mihi cornea fibra est. Sed recti finemque extremumque esse recuso EUGE tuum et BELLE. Nam BELLE hoc excute totum : Quid non intus habet?