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... Book and First Latin Dictionary 12mo . 38 . ........ 12mo . 28 . A FIRST LATIN READING - BOOK ; or , Tirocinium Latinum : Adapted to the Author's Child's Latin Primer .... A SECOND LATIN READING - BOOK ; or , Palestra Latina : Adapted ...
... Book and First Latin Dictionary 12mo . 38 . ........ 12mo . 28 . A FIRST LATIN READING - BOOK ; or , Tirocinium Latinum : Adapted to the Author's Child's Latin Primer .... A SECOND LATIN READING - BOOK ; or , Palestra Latina : Adapted ...
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... book opens with a kind of apology for the practice of satiric composition . It takes the form of a consultation with the old lawyer Trebatius Testa , whose hints and cautions are given with much humour and some allusion to his ...
... book opens with a kind of apology for the practice of satiric composition . It takes the form of a consultation with the old lawyer Trebatius Testa , whose hints and cautions are given with much humour and some allusion to his ...
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... books enough , wholly irregular ; and in their sub- with their cases , to serve for his ject they were principally a delinea- funeral pile . ' tion of daily life . But Lucilius ambustum , prop . ' burnt round , ' wrote only in hexameter ...
... books enough , wholly irregular ; and in their sub- with their cases , to serve for his ject they were principally a delinea- funeral pile . ' tion of daily life . But Lucilius ambustum , prop . ' burnt round , ' wrote only in hexameter ...
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... book . 5. præscribe , a word used techni- cally of juridical rules . ( Orelli quotes Cic . Orat . 41. ( 141. ) , reading præ- 6 scriptionum for the common perse- cutionum ) . Gr . 7. Optimum erat , ' it were best ; ' ' it would be the ...
... book . 5. præscribe , a word used techni- cally of juridical rules . ( Orelli quotes Cic . Orat . 41. ( 141. ) , reading præ- 6 scriptionum for the common perse- cutionum ) . Gr . 7. Optimum erat , ' it were best ; ' ' it would be the ...
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... book , and to whom therefore these maxims might be attributed , with some chance of taking in the gastronomi- cal professors who affected to know and retail the secrets of Mæcenas's kitchen . In reference to the style of the speaker ...
... book , and to whom therefore these maxims might be attributed , with some chance of taking in the gastronomi- cal professors who affected to know and retail the secrets of Mæcenas's kitchen . In reference to the style of the speaker ...
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Page 215 - ... scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons: rem tibi Socraticae poterunt ostendere chartae, 310 verbaque provisam rem non invita sequentur. qui didicit patriae quid debeat et quid amicis, quo sit amore parens, quo frater amandus et hospes, quod sit conscripti, quod iudicis officium, quae partes in bellum missi ducis, ille profecto 315 reddere personae scit convenientia cuique.
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Page 126 - De te pendentis, te respicientis amici. 105 Ad summam : sapiens uno minor est Jove, dives, Liber, honoratus, pulcher, rex denique regum, Praecipue sanus, nisi cum pituita molesta est. EPISTOLA II. TROJANI belli scriptorem, maxime Lolli, Dum tu declamas Romae, Praeneste relegi, Qui, quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non, Planius ac melius Chrysippo et Crantore dicit.
Page 230 - Candour, which spares its foes, nor e'er descends With bigot zeal to combat for its friends ; Candour, which loves in see-saw strain to tell Of acting foolishly, but meaning well; Too nice to praise by wholesale or to blame, Convinced that all men's motives are the same ; And finds, with keen discriminating sight, Black's not so black, nor white so very white.
Page 216 - Verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis Offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit Aut humana parum cavit natura.
Page 213 - Graeca nocturna versate manu, versate diurna. at vestri proavi Plautinos et numeros et 270 laudavere sales ; nimium patienter utrumque, ne dicam stulte, mirati, si modo ego et vos scimus inurbanum lepido seponere dicto, legitimumque sonum digitis callemus et aure.
Page 174 - Fabula si dubitem, clament periisse pudorem 80 Cuncti paene patres, ea cum reprehendere coner Quae gravis Aesopus, quae doctus Roscius egit : Vel quia nil rectum, nisi quod placuit sibi, ducunt, Vel quia turpe putant parere minoribus, et quae Imberbes didicere, senes perdenda fateri.
Page 203 - Vicinas urbes alit et grave sentit aratrum, Seu cursum mutavit iniquum frugibus amnis Doctus iter melius, mortalia facta peribunt, Nedum sermonum stet honos et gratia vivax. Multa renascentur, quae jam cecidere, cadentque 70 Quae nunc sunt in honore vocabula, si volet usus, Quem penes arbitrium est et jus et norma loquendi.
Page 55 - Lucili ritu nostrum melioris utroque. ille velut fidis arcana sodalibus olim 30 credebat libris, neque si male cesserat usquam decurrens alio, neque si bene; quo fit ut omnis votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella vita senis.
Page 177 - Carmine Di superi placantur, carmine Manes. Agricolae prisci, fortes, parvoque beati, Condita post frumenta, levantes tempore festo Corpus et ipsum animum spe finis dura ferentem, Cum sociis operum, pueris, et conjuge fida, Tellurem porco, Silvanum lacte piabant, Floribus et vino Genium, memorem brevis aevi. Fescennina per hune inventa licentia morem Versibus alternis opprobria rustica fudit...