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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... Juvenal, Martin Madan. Eacus may be tormenting : whence another could convey the gold ΙΟ Of the stolen Fleece : how great wild - afh trees Monychus could throw : The plane - trees of Fronto , and the convuls'd marbles complain Always ...
... Juvenal, Martin Madan. Eacus may be tormenting : whence another could convey the gold ΙΟ Of the stolen Fleece : how great wild - afh trees Monychus could throw : The plane - trees of Fronto , and the convuls'd marbles complain Always ...
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... Juvenal, Martin Madan. When he can think it right to hope for the charge of a cohort , Who hath given his eftate to stables , and lacks all The income of his ancestors , while he flies , with fwift axle , over 60 The Flaminian way : for ...
... Juvenal, Martin Madan. When he can think it right to hope for the charge of a cohort , Who hath given his eftate to stables , and lacks all The income of his ancestors , while he flies , with fwift axle , over 60 The Flaminian way : for ...
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... Juvenal, Martin Madan. ( Here and there exposed , and in almost a naked chair , 65 And much resembling the fupine Mæcenas ) A figner to what is false ; who himself splendid and happy Has made , with fmall tables , and with a wet gem ? A ...
... Juvenal, Martin Madan. ( Here and there exposed , and in almost a naked chair , 65 And much resembling the fupine Mæcenas ) A figner to what is false ; who himself splendid and happy Has made , with fmall tables , and with a wet gem ? A ...
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... Juvenal, Martin Madan. To crimes they owe , gardens , palaces , tables , Old filver , and a goat ftanding on the outfide of cups . 75 Whom does the corrupter of a covetous daughter - in - law fuffer to sleep ? Whom base spoufes , and the ...
... Juvenal, Martin Madan. To crimes they owe , gardens , palaces , tables , Old filver , and a goat ftanding on the outfide of cups . 75 Whom does the corrupter of a covetous daughter - in - law fuffer to sleep ? Whom base spoufes , and the ...
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... Juvenal, Martin Madan. Whatever men do - defire , fear , anger , pleasure , 85 Joys , difcourfe is the compofition of ... Juvenal , by this , feverely cenfures the gamefters , who had C 4 rather Quis totidem erexit villas ? quis fercula ...
... Juvenal, Martin Madan. Whatever men do - defire , fear , anger , pleasure , 85 Joys , difcourfe is the compofition of ... Juvenal , by this , feverely cenfures the gamefters , who had C 4 rather Quis totidem erexit villas ? quis fercula ...
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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...