Horace: His Life, Friendships and Philosophy as Told by Himself in Unrhymed Metrical TranslationEvening post job printing house, 1904 - 215 pages |
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... languages ! I have , For sacrifice joyous , a vow made : the whitest , Of goats doom'd to Bacchus , since once I nigh killed was , By stroke of a tree - fall . This day , ever sacred , at turn of the year tide , A cork , with the pitch ...
... languages ! I have , For sacrifice joyous , a vow made : the whitest , Of goats doom'd to Bacchus , since once I nigh killed was , By stroke of a tree - fall . This day , ever sacred , at turn of the year tide , A cork , with the pitch ...
Page 115
... language . Heroic achievements of leaders and Kings , and grim war- fare , To write , and next fit them to measures , was shown us by Homer : To numbers unevenly joined was at first lamentation Applied , and then later included the ...
... language . Heroic achievements of leaders and Kings , and grim war- fare , To write , and next fit them to measures , was shown us by Homer : To numbers unevenly joined was at first lamentation Applied , and then later included the ...
Page 116
... raises , And anger of Chremes delights in inflation of language : 95 While frequently wail , in a suppliant speech , do the tragic Telephus and Peleus both , who when poor and in exile , Aside threw their paint - pots , and all the 116.
... raises , And anger of Chremes delights in inflation of language : 95 While frequently wail , in a suppliant speech , do the tragic Telephus and Peleus both , who when poor and in exile , Aside threw their paint - pots , and all the 116.
Page 126
... language , would Latium be , if not bored , one and all , Were these poets with tedium of file - work , and patience . O you , from Pompilius descended , reject pray , all verses that neither Long days , and much scratching of pens ...
... language , would Latium be , if not bored , one and all , Were these poets with tedium of file - work , and patience . O you , from Pompilius descended , reject pray , all verses that neither Long days , and much scratching of pens ...
Page 139
... language kinship , rather than to the scholarly critical capacity for which so many of his coun- trymen have been distinguished in this and other fields . From him we learn that the Satire is " une pièce de vers 66 facilement écrite ...
... language kinship , rather than to the scholarly critical capacity for which so many of his coun- trymen have been distinguished in this and other fields . From him we learn that the Satire is " une pièce de vers 66 facilement écrite ...
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Page 191 - Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about : but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went...
Page 84 - 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 in x is.
Page 70 - Marsus aper plagas. me doctarum hederae praemia frontium dis miscent superis, me gelidum nemus nympharumque leves cum Satyris chori secernunt populo, si neque tibias Euterpe cohibet nee Polyhymnia Lesboum refugit tendere barbiton. quodsi me lyricis vatibus inseres, sublimi feriam sidera vertice.
Page 12 - EXEGI monumentum aere perennius Regalique situ pyramidum altius, Quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens Possit diruere aut innumerabilis Annorum series et fuga temporum. Non omnis moriar, multaque pars mei Vitabit Libitinam. Usque ego postera Crescam laude recens, dum Capitolium Scandet cum tacita Virgine pontifex.
Page 210 - Informes hiemes reducit 15 luppiter, idem Summovet. Non, si male nunc, et olim Sic erit : quondam cithara tacentem Suscitat musam neque semper arcum Tendit Apollo. 20 Rebus angustis animosus atque Fortis appare ; sapienter idem Contrahes vento nimium secundo Turgida vela.
Page 32 - Academi quaerere verum. 45 dura sed emovere loco me tempora grato, civilisque rudem belli tulit aestus in arma Caesaris Augusti non responsura lacertis. unde simul primum me dimisere Philippi, decisis humilem pennis inopemque paterni...
Page 68 - Luctantem Icariis fluctibus Africum Mercator metuens, otium et oppidi Laudat rura sui : mox reficit rates Quassas, indocilis pauperiem pati.
Page 72 - Sive mutata juvenem figura Ales in terris imitaris, almae Filius Maiae, patiens vocari Caesaris ultor : Serus in caelum redeas diuque Laetus intersis populo Quirini ; Neve te nostris vitiis iniquum Ocior aura Tollat: hie magnos potius triumphos, Hie ames dici pater atque princeps, Neu sinas Medos equitare inultos Te duce, Caesar.
Page 52 - Parcus deorum cultor et infrequens insanientis dum sapientiae consultus erro, nunc retrorsum vela dare atque iterare cursus cogor relictos...
Page 108 - Iratus : quis enim invitum servare laboret ? Hoc quoque te manet, ut pueros elementa docentem Occupet extremis in vicis balba senectus.