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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Page iv
... better than Heathen Rome without it , is not for me to determine : but , I fear , that the perufal of Juvenal will furnish us with too ferious a reason to observe , that , not only modern Rome , but every metropolis in the Chriftian ...
... better than Heathen Rome without it , is not for me to determine : but , I fear , that the perufal of Juvenal will furnish us with too ferious a reason to observe , that , not only modern Rome , but every metropolis in the Chriftian ...
Page vi
... have fo ftudioufly avoided through the reft of the work , be- cause the literal fenfe of thefe is better obfcured than explained , especially to young minds . The The next thing to be confidered , after knowing what vi PREFACE .
... have fo ftudioufly avoided through the reft of the work , be- cause the literal fenfe of thefe is better obfcured than explained , especially to young minds . The The next thing to be confidered , after knowing what vi PREFACE .
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... better known to him , than to me The grove of Mars , and the den of Vulcan near The Eolian rocks : what the winds can do : what ghofts 5 wounded by the fpear of Achilles , but afterwards healed by the ruft of the fame fpear . Ovid ...
... better known to him , than to me The grove of Mars , and the den of Vulcan near The Eolian rocks : what the winds can do : what ghofts 5 wounded by the fpear of Achilles , but afterwards healed by the ruft of the fame fpear . Ovid ...
Page 14
... better in a law- fuit . The province of Africa had fued Marius , and had car- ied the cause against him , but had still reason to deplore her loffes for though Marius was fentenced to pay an immenfe fine , which came out of what he had ...
... better in a law- fuit . The province of Africa had fued Marius , and had car- ied the cause against him , but had still reason to deplore her loffes for though Marius was fentenced to pay an immenfe fine , which came out of what he had ...
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... better Locufta , inftructs her rude neighbours , Through fame and the people , to bring forth their black husbands . Dare fomething worthy the narrow Gyaræ , or a prison , If you would be somebody . PROBITY IS PRAISED AND STARVES WITH ...
... better Locufta , inftructs her rude neighbours , Through fame and the people , to bring forth their black husbands . Dare fomething worthy the narrow Gyaræ , or a prison , If you would be somebody . PROBITY IS PRAISED AND STARVES WITH ...
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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...