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 : in Two Volumes, Volume 1 |
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... , a faithful and diligent witness against the vices and follies of the people among which he lived ; Rom . ii . 15. Comp . If . xlv . 5. See Sat. x . 1. 363 , and note . a 2 and and , indeed , against all , who , like PREFACE .
... , a faithful and diligent witness against the vices and follies of the people among which he lived ; Rom . ii . 15. Comp . If . xlv . 5. See Sat. x . 1. 363 , and note . a 2 and and , indeed , against all , who , like PREFACE .
Page ix
... word , and teaches us how little can be truly * See Whitby on Acts xiv . 16 . † Comp . Rom . i . 19 , 20 , with Acts xiv . 17 . See Rom . ii . 15 . VOL . I. § Tit . i . 12 . b known * known by the wifeft of men , without a PREFACE . ix.
... word , and teaches us how little can be truly * See Whitby on Acts xiv . 16 . † Comp . Rom . i . 19 , 20 , with Acts xiv . 17 . See Rom . ii . 15 . VOL . I. § Tit . i . 12 . b known * known by the wifeft of men , without a PREFACE . ix.
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... Comp . note on 1. 63 . A wet gem . ] i . e . A feal , which was cut on fome pre- cious ftone , worn in a ring on the finger , and occafionally made ufe of to feal deeds or wills - this they wetted , to prevent the wax fticking to it ...
... Comp . note on 1. 63 . A wet gem . ] i . e . A feal , which was cut on fome pre- cious ftone , worn in a ring on the finger , and occafionally made ufe of to feal deeds or wills - this they wetted , to prevent the wax fticking to it ...
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... ( Comp . Sat. ix . 1. 49. n . ) or rather , perhaps , a certain difeafe which was the confequence . of his impurities , and which affected his countenance and his gait , fo as to proclaim his fhame to every body he met . What Horum ...
... ( Comp . Sat. ix . 1. 49. n . ) or rather , perhaps , a certain difeafe which was the confequence . of his impurities , and which affected his countenance and his gait , fo as to proclaim his fhame to every body he met . What Horum ...
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... ( Comp . Rom . i . 27. ) Such numbers were guilty of it , that it was looked upon rather as fashionable than criminal ; they feemed to fet the law at defiance , as not daring to attack fo large a body . a Battalions joined , & c . ] A ...
... ( Comp . Rom . i . 27. ) Such numbers were guilty of it , that it was looked upon rather as fashionable than criminal ; they feemed to fet the law at defiance , as not daring to attack fo large a body . a Battalions joined , & c . ] A ...
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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...