Satirae

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Macmillan and Company, 1886 - Rome

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Page 352 - Spaniards beat you, that eat nothing but oranges and lemons" ; and so put more courage into his men than he could have done with a more learned oration. Rhetoric is...
Page 28 - Omnibus in terris, quae sunt a Gadibus usque Auroram et Gangen, pauci dinoscere possunt vera bona atque illis multum diversa, remota erroris nebula.
Page 322 - ... and he raises mine. I have the pleasure of concernment in all he says; he drives his reader along with him, and when he is at the end of his way, I willingly stop with him. If he went another stage, it would be too far; it would make a journey of a progress, and turn delight into fatigue.
Page 20 - Esse loco ! Metuens virgae iam grandis Achilles Cantabat patriis in montibus : et cui non tune Eliceret risum citharoedi cauda magistri ? Sed Rufum atque alios caedit sua quemque iuventus, Rufum, quem toties Ciceronem Allobroga dixit.
Page 48 - ... i nunc et ventis animam committe dolato confisus ligno, digitis a morte remotus quattuor aut septem, si sit latissima taeda...
Page 20 - ... esse loco. metuens virgae iam grandis Achilles 210 cantabat patriis in montibus et cui non tune eliceret risum citharoedi cauda magistri ; sed Rufum atque alios caedit sua quemque iuventus, Rufum, quem totiens Ciceronem Allobroga dixit.

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