The Works of Horace: With English Notes, Critical and ExplanatoryHarper & Brothers, 1897 - 731 pages |
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Page xii
... writer ; the man who excited or composed at his will the strong passions of the Roman people , had lost his occupation ... writers , ' however , have shown from in- scriptions that Venusia , the town in the territory of which Horace was ...
... writer ; the man who excited or composed at his will the strong passions of the Roman people , had lost his occupation ... writers , ' however , have shown from in- scriptions that Venusia , the town in the territory of which Horace was ...
Page xiv
... writers are so pertinaciously set on finding it in the Sabine district , that they have supposed Horace to have called some fountain in that valley by the name en deared to him by his youthful remembrances . But do we know enough of the ...
... writers are so pertinaciously set on finding it in the Sabine district , that they have supposed Horace to have called some fountain in that valley by the name en deared to him by his youthful remembrances . But do we know enough of the ...
Page xv
... writer of tragedy , but had ranslated the Odyssey into the Saturnian vers the native vernacu ar metre of Italy.R Orbilius may not merely have thought the Eu . merism of Ennius , or the Epicurianism of Lucretius , unfit for the study of ...
... writer of tragedy , but had ranslated the Odyssey into the Saturnian vers the native vernacu ar metre of Italy.R Orbilius may not merely have thought the Eu . merism of Ennius , or the Epicurianism of Lucretius , unfit for the study of ...
Page xvii
... writers ; the great models of that kind of poetry whicn consists in shrewd and acute observation on actual human life , on society , manners , and morals , expressed in terse , perspicuous , and Animated verse , which he was destined ...
... writers ; the great models of that kind of poetry whicn consists in shrewd and acute observation on actual human life , on society , manners , and morals , expressed in terse , perspicuous , and Animated verse , which he was destined ...
Page xxi
... writers , have some lines of very free flow and cadence , to the few Saturnian verses which survive from the Punic war of his rival Nævius , and we shall not wonder that the Roman ear became fastidious and dis . tasteful of its old ...
... writers , have some lines of very free flow and cadence , to the few Saturnian verses which survive from the Punic war of his rival Nævius , and we shall not wonder that the Roman ear became fastidious and dis . tasteful of its old ...
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Page 252 - Tu nihil invita dices faciesve Minerva ; 385 Id tibi judicium est, ea mens ; si quid tamen olim Scripseris, in Maeci descendat judicis aures Et patris et nostras, nonumque prematur in annum : Membranis intus positis delere licebit, Quod non edideris ; nescit vox missa reverti.
Page xx - Hostilius, the struggle of Mettus Curtius through the marsh, the women rushing with torn raiment and dishevelled hair between their fathers and their husbands, the nightly meetings of Numa and the Nymph by the well in the sacred grove, the fight of the three Romans and the three Albans, the purchase of the Sibylline books, the crime of Tullia, the simulated madness of Brutus, the ambiguous reply of the Delphian oracle to the Tarquins, the wrongs of Lucretia, the heroic actions of Horatius Codes...
Page 245 - ... tandem custode remoto, gaudet equis canibusque et aprici gramine campi, cereus in vitium flecti, monitoribus asper, utilium tardus provisor, prodigus aeris, sublimis cupidusque et amata relinquere pernix.
Page 247 - Carmine qui tragico vilem certavit ob hircum, 220 Mox etiam agrestes Satyros nudavit, et asper Incolumi gravitate jocum tentavit : eo quod Illecebris erat et grata novitate morandus Spectator functusque sacris et potus et exlex.
Page 247 - Satyros, ita vertere seria ludo, ne quicumque deus, quicumque adhibebitur heros, regali conspectus in auro nuper et ostro, migret in obscuras humili sermone tabernas, aut, -dum vitat humum, nubes et inania captet.
Page xxxvi - Tis (let me see) three years and more (October next it will be four) Since Harley bid me first attend, And chose me for an humble friend; Would take me in his coach to chat, And question me of this and that; As,
Page 106 - Beatus ille, qui procul negotiis, Ut prisca gens mortalium, Paterna rura bobus exercet suis...
Page 182 - Prout cuique libido est Siccat inaequales calices conviva, solutus Legibus insanis, seu quis capit acria fortis Pocula seu modicis uvescit laetius.
Page 135 - ... furta latrociniis, et magnis parva mineris falce recisurum simili te, si tibi regnum permittant homines, si dives, qui sapiens est, et sutor bonus et solus formosus et est rex, 125 cur optas quod habes ? ' non nosti quid pater ' inquit ' Chrysippus dicat : sapiens crepidas sibi numquam nec soleas fecit ; sutor tamen est sapiens.
Page 149 - IBAM forte via Sacra, sicut meus est mos, Nescio quid meditans nugarum, totus in illis : Accurrit quidam notus mihi nomine tantum, Arreptaque manu, "Quid agis, dulcissime rerum?" " Suaviter ut nunc est," inquam, " et cupio omnia quae vis." Cum assectaretur: "Num quid vis?" occupo. At ille, "Noris nos," inquit;