A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius: With Explanatory Notes in which These Difficult Satirists are Rendered Easy and Familiar to the Reader, Volume 1N. Bliss, R. Bliss, and R. Bliss, Jun., 1807 |
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... looked upon with the most ignominious contempt . 90. Saluted , & c . ] You , who think happiness to consist in the favour of the prince , in great power , and high preferment , what think you ? -do you now wish to occupy the place which ...
... looked upon with the most ignominious contempt . 90. Saluted , & c . ] You , who think happiness to consist in the favour of the prince , in great power , and high preferment , what think you ? -do you now wish to occupy the place which ...
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... looked upon , not only as bearing the high- est value , but as something more than human . For these , & c . ] Commanders of all nations have exerted themselves , through every scene of danger and fatigue , in order to get at these ...
... looked upon , not only as bearing the high- est value , but as something more than human . For these , & c . ] Commanders of all nations have exerted themselves , through every scene of danger and fatigue , in order to get at these ...
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... looked upon , in all respects , as such , not daring to refuse a confederacy with their conquerors . Basilus was one of these pretors , who shamefully plundered his province . Hirrus . ] Some read Irus . - Whoever this was , his ...
... looked upon , in all respects , as such , not daring to refuse a confederacy with their conquerors . Basilus was one of these pretors , who shamefully plundered his province . Hirrus . ] Some read Irus . - Whoever this was , his ...
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... looked upon , by a wise and firm mind , as an office , or duty , which all are to fulfil , and therefore to be submitted to as such , not with fear and dismay , but with as much willingness and complacency as any other duty which nature ...
... looked upon , by a wise and firm mind , as an office , or duty , which all are to fulfil , and therefore to be submitted to as such , not with fear and dismay , but with as much willingness and complacency as any other duty which nature ...
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... looked upon as instances of cheerfulness and elegance ; in short , as gentlemanlike qualifications . 179. Other sports . ] Amusements of a different kind than those above mentioned . 180. Author of the Iliad , & c . ] Homer - parts of ...
... looked upon as instances of cheerfulness and elegance ; in short , as gentlemanlike qualifications . 179. Other sports . ] Amusements of a different kind than those above mentioned . 180. Author of the Iliad , & c . ] Homer - parts of ...
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adeo Ægypt AINSW alludes altar ancients Archigenes atque avarice beasts Cæsar called Catullus Ceres chariot Comp countenance crime Cybele danger death deity denote Ennius epist father fear feasts fortune give gods hæc head hear Hence illis Italy Jupiter Juvenal king Lares lictor live luxury manner Metaph metonym mihi mind miserable Nero nunc Nurscia occasion Pacuvius pale perhaps Persius person philosopher Phrygia poet poet means pretor Priam punishment quæ quam quid quis quod Retiarius rich Romans Rome sacred sacrifice Satire SATIRES OF JUVENAL says Persius Sejanus sense shew ship signifies sistrum slaves soldier sort Stoic supposed synec tamen temple Tentyrites thee things thou Thyestes tibi Vascons verses vice VIRG whence wife wine wish word worshipped wretch young youth
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Page 85 - If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But, when they seldom come, they wish'd-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
Page 54 - Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations. and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Page 54 - Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall: and that should teach us, There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.
Page 52 - ... orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano. fortem posce animum mortis terrore carentem, qui spatium vitae extremum inter munera ponat naturae, qui ferre queat quoscumque labores, nesciat irasci, cupiat nihil et potiores 360 Herculis aerumnas credat saevosque labores et venere et cenis et pluma Sardanapalli.
Page 360 - I puer, et strigiles Crispini ad balnea defer, Si increpuit, cessas nugator...
Page 318 - Tange, miser, venas et pone in pectore dextram, "Nil calet hie;" summosque pedes attinge manusque,
Page 348 - Cras hoc fiet. Idem eras fiet, quid ) quasi magnum Nempe diem donas...
Page 270 - ... quidnam igitur tenerum et laxa cervice legendum ?" "'torva Mimalloneis implerunt cornua bombis/ et ' raptum vitulo caput ablatura superbo 100 Bassaris,' et 'lyncem Maenas flexura corymbis euhion ingeminat, reparabilis adsonat echo...
Page 7 - Fasces — bundles of birchen rods carried before the Roman magistrates, with an axe bound up in the middle of them, so as to appear at the top. These were ensigns of their official power to punish crimes, either by scourging or, death.
Page 254 - ... quo didicisse, nisi hoc fermentum et quae semel intus innata est rupto iecore exierit caprificus?' 25 en pallor seniumque! o mores, usque adeone scire tuum nihil est nisi te scire hoc sciat alter? 'at pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier "hic est." ten cirratorum centum dictata fuisse pro nihilo pendes?