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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... hence , from the place of his birth , he was called Aquinas . It is not certain whether he was the fon , or fofter - child , of a rich freedman . He had a learned education , and , in the time of Claudius Nero , pleaded caufes with ...
... hence , from the place of his birth , he was called Aquinas . It is not certain whether he was the fon , or fofter - child , of a rich freedman . He had a learned education , and , in the time of Claudius Nero , pleaded caufes with ...
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... Hence , we find the great apoftle of the Gentiles , Acts xvii . 28. quoting a paffage from his countryman , Aratus of Cilicia , against idolatry , or imagining there be gods made with hands . We find the fame apostle § reproving the ...
... Hence , we find the great apoftle of the Gentiles , Acts xvii . 28. quoting a paffage from his countryman , Aratus of Cilicia , against idolatry , or imagining there be gods made with hands . We find the fame apostle § reproving the ...
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... Hence the comedies , which treated of the actions of fuch , were called prætextate . In our time , we should fay , genteel comedy . III . The Palliata from pallium , a fort of upper garment worn by the Greeks , and in which the actors ...
... Hence the comedies , which treated of the actions of fuch , were called prætextate . In our time , we should fay , genteel comedy . III . The Palliata from pallium , a fort of upper garment worn by the Greeks , and in which the actors ...
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... hence a book or work written , at first made of barks of trees , afterwards of paper and parchment . Summus is derived from fupremus , hence fummum - i , the top , the whole , the fum . 8. The grove of Mars . ] The hiftory of Romulus ...
... hence a book or work written , at first made of barks of trees , afterwards of paper and parchment . Summus is derived from fupremus , hence fummum - i , the top , the whole , the fum . 8. The grove of Mars . ] The hiftory of Romulus ...
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... Hence , he fays - Proftantis pupilli . Preffes on the people . ] Grown rich by the fpoils of his ward , he is fuppofed to be carried , in a litter , along the streets , with fuch a crowd of attendants , as to incommode other pas fengers ...
... Hence , he fays - Proftantis pupilli . Preffes on the people . ] Grown rich by the fpoils of his ward , he is fuppofed to be carried , in a litter , along the streets , with fuch a crowd of attendants , as to incommode other pas fengers ...
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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...