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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Page 198
... Virro tenet phialas : tibi non committitur aurum ; Vel fi quando datur , cuftos affixus ibidem , 49 Qui numeret gemmas , unguefque obfervet acutos : Da veniam , præclara illic laudatur iaspis ; Nam Virro ( ut multi ) gemmas ad pocula ...
... Virro tenet phialas : tibi non committitur aurum ; Vel fi quando datur , cuftos affixus ibidem , 49 Qui numeret gemmas , unguefque obfervet acutos : Da veniam , præclara illic laudatur iaspis ; Nam Virro ( ut multi ) gemmas ad pocula ...
Page 199
... Virro himself Holds capacious pieces of the Heliades , and cups with beryl Unequal to you gold is not committed . 40 Or if at any time it be given , a guard is fixed there , Who may count the gems , and obferve your fharp nails : Excufe ...
... Virro himself Holds capacious pieces of the Heliades , and cups with beryl Unequal to you gold is not committed . 40 Or if at any time it be given , a guard is fixed there , Who may count the gems , and obferve your fharp nails : Excufe ...
Page 201
... Virro gave for this Afiatic boy . 58. Not to detain you . ] i . e . To be fhort , as we fay . Comp . Sat. iii . 1. 183 . 58. Trifles , Frivola . Quod cùm ita fit , tu Gætulum Ganymedem SAT . V. 201 JUVENAL'S SATIRES .
... Virro gave for this Afiatic boy . 58. Not to detain you . ] i . e . To be fhort , as we fay . Comp . Sat. iii . 1. 183 . 58. Trifles , Frivola . Quod cùm ita fit , tu Gætulum Ganymedem SAT . V. 201 JUVENAL'S SATIRES .
Page 203
... Virro's , at any of the tables of the rich and great ? 67. Has reached out , & c . ] When you have called for bread , it has indeed been brought , but with what an ill - will have you been ferved - how has the flave that reached , or ...
... Virro's , at any of the tables of the rich and great ? 67. Has reached out , & c . ] When you have called for bread , it has indeed been brought , but with what an ill - will have you been ferved - how has the flave that reached , or ...
Page 205
... Virro's houfe to fupper- and as the mournful complaints which he would have to make on finding all his attendances and fervices fo repaid - therefore Trebius was fadly mistaken in placing his happiness in living at the tables of the ...
... Virro's houfe to fupper- and as the mournful complaints which he would have to make on finding all his attendances and fervices fo repaid - therefore Trebius was fadly mistaken in placing his happiness in living at the tables of the ...
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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...