Juvenalis Satirae Xvi, with Engl. Notes by H. Prior. Expurgated EdGeneral Books, 2013 - 102 pages This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 edition. Excerpt: ...the rhetoric schools: --"How to embellish; how to class the cause; where the real point at issue lies; what shafts (opponent's arguments) may be aimed from this or that quarter." "Color," as in Sat. vi. 280, is "rhetorical ornament." "Mercedem appellas? Quid enim scio?" Culpa docentis Scilicet arguitur, quod laeva in parte mamillae Nil salit Arcadico juveni, cujus mihi sexta 160 Quaque die miserum dirus caput Hannibal implet, Quidquid id est, de quo deliberat, an petat Urbem A Cannis, an post nimbos et fulmina cautus Circumagat madidas a tempestate cohortes. Quantum vis stipulare, et protenus accipe, quod do, Ut toties illum pater audiat.--Haec alii sex 166 Et plures uno conclamant ore Sophistae, Et veras agitant lites, raptore reficto. Fusa venena silent, malus ingratusque maritus, Et quae jam veteres sanant mortaria caecos. 170 158. mercedem--scio The pupil speaks. "Ask for pay, indeed! Whv, what have I learned from you?" 158--160. "As if his stupidity were the teacher's fault! I am sure I've hnal enough of his Hanniba1." 159. laeva in parte mamillae i. e. in his heart. We should say, in his head. But the ancients placed the seat of reason in the heart. 160. Aread. juv. "this clodhopping youth;' as Arcadia, from its inland situation, w.is a purely agricultural district. But perhaps the allusion is to the Arcadian asses, which were celebrated. Plaut. Asin. ii. 2. 67, "Meministin' asinos Aread icos mercatori vendere Pellaeo nostrum atriensem;" and Persius, Sat. iii. 9, " Arcadiae pecuaria rudere credas." 161--164. Hanniftal--cohortes i. e. a declamation on the stocktheme of Hannibal's omitting to follow up his victory at Cannae. 163, 164. ttimfjos et... |