A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius: With Copious Explanatory Notes, by which These Difficult Satirists are Rendered Easy and Familiar to the Reader |
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... seem , that , the perfon meant , was fome great man , who had been a friend to Matho , and whom Matho had bafely betrayed . 34. From the devoured nobility . ] i . e . Deftroyed through fe- cret accufations , or pillaged by informers for ...
... seem , that , the perfon meant , was fome great man , who had been a friend to Matho , and whom Matho had bafely betrayed . 34. From the devoured nobility . ] i . e . Deftroyed through fe- cret accufations , or pillaged by informers for ...
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... , fomething like the lord - mayor of London - He was called Prætor Urbanus , and had power to judge matters of law between citizen and citizen . This seems 1 Sed libertinus prior eft : prior , inquit , ego SAT . I. 25 JUVENAL's SATIRES .
... , fomething like the lord - mayor of London - He was called Prætor Urbanus , and had power to judge matters of law between citizen and citizen . This seems 1 Sed libertinus prior eft : prior , inquit , ego SAT . I. 25 JUVENAL's SATIRES .
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... seems to mention this , by way of contraft to what follows . 135. Their Lord . ] i . e . The patron of these clients . Rex , not only ignifies a king - but any great or rich man : so a patron . See Juv . Sat. v . 1. 14. This , from the ...
... seems to mention this , by way of contraft to what follows . 135. Their Lord . ] i . e . The patron of these clients . Rex , not only ignifies a king - but any great or rich man : so a patron . See Juv . Sat. v . 1. 14. This , from the ...
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... seems , this fame rough - looking reprover fmelt very strongly . 42. Your rough neck . ] Hairy , and bearing the ... seem to represent them , and from which you wish to awaken them . The Roman jurifprudence feems to have been founded on ...
... seems , this fame rough - looking reprover fmelt very strongly . 42. Your rough neck . ] Hairy , and bearing the ... seem to represent them , and from which you wish to awaken them . The Roman jurifprudence feems to have been founded on ...
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... seem to be fufficient authority to adopt it . 92. We may praife alfo . ] To be fure we Romans may flat- ter , but without fuccefs ; we shall not be believed : the Greeks are the only people in fuch credit as to have all they fay pass ...
... seem to be fufficient authority to adopt it . 92. We may praife alfo . ] To be fure we Romans may flat- ter , but without fuccefs ; we shall not be believed : the Greeks are the only people in fuch credit as to have all they fay pass ...
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Page 372 - Catinensi pumice lumbum squalentes traducit avos emptorque veneni frangenda miseram funestat imagine gentem? tota licet veteres exornent undique cerae atria, nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.
Page 417 - I'll tell you, friend; a wife man and a fool. 200 You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobler-like, the parfon will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The reft is all but leather or prunella.
Page 176 - Maecenas, upon whom at first he confetrefl the new honour. He was to precede all other city magistrates, having power to receive appeals from the inferior courts, and to decide almost all causes within the limits of Rome, or one hundred miles round. Before this, there was sometimes a pimfectus urbis created, when the kings, or the greater officers, were absent from the city, to administer justice in their room.
Page viii - The books that we learn at schools are generally laid aside, with this prejudice, that they were the labours as well as the sorrows of our childhood and education ; but they are among the best of books : the Greek and Roman authors have a spirit in them, a force both of thought and expression, that later ages have not been able to imitate...