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... blind admiration only for the ancient and ruder literature . These two epistles he united with a third addressed to the Pisones , father and two sons , naturally putting the letter to $$ 10-13 ] INTRODUCTION — Augustus in the first place ...
... blind admiration only for the ancient and ruder literature . These two epistles he united with a third addressed to the Pisones , father and two sons , naturally putting the letter to $$ 10-13 ] INTRODUCTION — Augustus in the first place ...
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... ancient and modern , to repeat his measures . It is not exaggeration to say that no one since Horace's day has written Latin Alcaics or Sapphics that deserve to be com- pared with their models . Naturally Horace's influence on modern ...
... ancient and modern , to repeat his measures . It is not exaggeration to say that no one since Horace's day has written Latin Alcaics or Sapphics that deserve to be com- pared with their models . Naturally Horace's influence on modern ...
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... ancient line of princes of the Etruscan city of Arretium . Horace and his con- temporaries emphasize the con- trast between their patron's noble birth and the equestrian rank he preferred to keep at Rome . Cf. 3 , 16 , 20 Maecenas ...
... ancient line of princes of the Etruscan city of Arretium . Horace and his con- temporaries emphasize the con- trast between their patron's noble birth and the equestrian rank he preferred to keep at Rome . Cf. 3 , 16 , 20 Maecenas ...
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... ancient rite , Albana ( C.I.L. 1 , 807 ) , and Octavian believed that the god had es cially favored him at the battle of Actium . Cf. Prop . 5 , 6 , 27 ff . , Phoebus linquens stantem se vindice Delon | ... adstitit Augusti p pim super ...
... ancient rite , Albana ( C.I.L. 1 , 807 ) , and Octavian believed that the god had es cially favored him at the battle of Actium . Cf. Prop . 5 , 6 , 27 ff . , Phoebus linquens stantem se vindice Delon | ... adstitit Augusti p pim super ...
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... Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries , ' p . 134 ff . The foundations of this temple are only twenty - six feet above the mean level of the Tiber . That the ancient accounts of the flooding of the Forum are not ex- aggerated ...
... Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries , ' p . 134 ff . The foundations of this temple are only twenty - six feet above the mean level of the Tiber . That the ancient accounts of the flooding of the Forum are not ex- aggerated ...
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Page 169 - Divesne prisco natus ab Inacho Nil interest an pauper et infima De gente sub divo moreris, Victima nil miserantis Orci. Omnes eodem cogimur, omnium Versatur urna serius ocius Sors exitura et nos in aeternum Exilium impositura cumbae.
Page 93 - Et minax — quod sic voluere — ponto Unda recumbit. Romulum post hos prius, an quietum Pompili regnum memorem, an superbos Tarquini fasces, dubito, an Catonis 35 Nobile letum.
Page 431 - At that time, saith the Lord, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves...
Page 318 - Non omnis moriar, multaque pars mei Vitabit Libitinam : usque ego postera Crescam laude recens dum Capitolium Scandet cum tacita virgine pontifex. Dicar qua violens obstrepit Aufidus Et qua pauper aquae Daunus agrestium Regnavit populorum, ex humili potens, Princeps Aeolium carmen ad Italos Deduxisse modos. Sume superbiam Quaesitam meritis et mihi Delphica Lauro cinge volens, Melpomene, comam.
Page 229 - Chaldees' excellency, Shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; Neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; And their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; And owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Page 168 - GATHER ye rose-buds while ye may, Old time is still a flying, And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of Heaven, the sun, The higher he's a getting, The sooner will his race be run, And neerer he's to setting.
Page 208 - Tithonum minuit senectus, 30 et mihi forsan, tibi quod negarit, porriget hora. te greges centum Siculaeque circum mugiunt vaccae, tibi tollit hinnitum apta quadrigis equa, te bis Afro 35 murice tinctae vestiunt lanae : mihi parva rura et spiritum Graiae tenuem Camenae Parca non mendax dedit et malignum spernere vulgus.
Page 391 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 229 - But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
Page 120 - Catullan quote and several other echoes. integer vitae scelerisque purus non eget Mauris iaculis neque arcu nee venenatis gravida sagittis, Fusee, pharetra, sive per Syrtes iter aestuosas sive facturus per inhospitalem Caucasum vel quae loca fabulosus lambit Hydaspes. namque me silva lupus in Sabina, dum meam canto Lalagen et ultra terminum curis vagor expeditis, fugit inermem.