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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... attended with fuch loud and vehement vociferation , that even the trees about Fronto's house , as well as the marble within it , had reafon to apprehend demolition . This hyperbole is humourous , and well applied to the fub . ject . 14 ...
... attended with fuch loud and vehement vociferation , that even the trees about Fronto's house , as well as the marble within it , had reafon to apprehend demolition . This hyperbole is humourous , and well applied to the fub . ject . 14 ...
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... attending , or hearkening , to fome- thing this I fuppofe to be the fenfe of it in this place , as it follows the fi vacat . 22. Mævia ] The name of fome woman , who had the im pudence to fight in the Circus with a Tufcan boar.- The ...
... attending , or hearkening , to fome- thing this I fuppofe to be the fenfe of it in this place , as it follows the fi vacat . 22. Mævia ] The name of fome woman , who had the im pudence to fight in the Circus with a Tufcan boar.- The ...
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... ridicule their idle manner of fpending time . 128. The sportula . ] See before , 1. 95. The day began with attending on this . 128. The C Anhundred farthings feek ; and the wife follows the 30 SAT . I. JUVENALIS SATIRE .
... ridicule their idle manner of fpending time . 128. The sportula . ] See before , 1. 95. The day began with attending on this . 128. The C Anhundred farthings feek ; and the wife follows the 30 SAT . I. JUVENALIS SATIRE .
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... attend to this with unre- mitting conftancy ! This action of Otho's , who , when he found Galba , who had promised to adopt him as his fucceffor , deceiving him , in fa- vour of Pifo , destroyed him , makes a ftrong contraft in the cha ...
... attend to this with unre- mitting conftancy ! This action of Otho's , who , when he found Galba , who had promised to adopt him as his fucceffor , deceiving him , in fa- vour of Pifo , destroyed him , makes a ftrong contraft in the cha ...
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... attend the ceremony at fun - rife , at the temple of Romulus , which was a place where marriage- contracts were often made . 134. A friend marries . ] The word nubo ( as has been ob ferved ) properly belonging to the woman , as duco to ...
... attend the ceremony at fun - rife , at the temple of Romulus , which was a place where marriage- contracts were often made . 134. A friend marries . ] The word nubo ( as has been ob ferved ) properly belonging to the woman , as duco to ...
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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...