Selections from the Satires of Juvenal: To which is Added the Fifth Satire of Persius. With Notes

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Eldredge & Brother, 1884 - Verse satire, Latin - 276 pages

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Page 45 - Incertaeque rei ; Phalaris licet imperet, ut sis Falsus, et admoto dictet perjuria tauro, Summum crede nefas animam praeferre pudori, Et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas.
Page 210 - When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough.
Page 229 - Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Page 54 - Tum quoque materiam risus invenit ad omnes Occursus hominum, cujus prudentia monstrat Summos posse viros et magna exempla daturos Vervecum in patria crassoque sub aere nasci.
Page 215 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Page 65 - ... 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 Sardanapalli. monstro quod ipse tibi possis dare, semita certe tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.
Page 13 - Ite quibus grata est picta lupa barbara mitra ! Rusticus ille tuus sumit trechedipna, Quirine, Et ceromatico fert niceteria collo.
Page 104 - Nescio quod certe est, quod me tibi temperat, astrum. Mille hominum species, et rerum discolor usus. Velle suum cuique est, nee voto vivitur uno...
Page 257 - LATIN GRAMMAR. THE publication of this edition of the Classics was suggested by the constantly increasing demand by teachers for an edition which, by judicious notes, would give to the student the assistance really necessary to render his study profitable, furnishing explanations of passages difficult of interpretation, of peculiarities of Syntax, &c., and yet would require him to make faithful use of his Grammar and Dictionary.
Page 64 - Nil ergo optabunt homines ?" Si consilium vis, Permittes ipsis expendere numinibus, quid Conveniat nobis, rebusque sit utile nostris. Nam pro jucundis aptissima quaeque dabunt Di. Carior est illis homo, quam sibi.

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