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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... which I 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 .
... which I 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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... 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 pillaged , yet this was put into the public treasury , and no part of it given to 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 pillaged , yet this was put into the public treasury , and no part of it given to the ...
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... causes which were there debated . Apollo learned in the law . ] Auguftus built and dedi- cated a temple and library to Apollo , in his palace on mount Palatine ; in which were large collections of law - books , as well as the works of ...
... causes which were there debated . Apollo learned in the law . ] Auguftus built and dedi- cated a temple and library to Apollo , in his palace on mount Palatine ; in which were large collections of law - books , as well as the works of ...
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... caused to be affaffinated , he openly avowed his paffion for Julia , but was the death of her , by giving her medicines to make her mifcarry . See below , 1. 32—3 . 30. Recalling laws . ] At the very time when Domitian had this tragical ...
... caused to be affaffinated , he openly avowed his paffion for Julia , but was the death of her , by giving her medicines to make her mifcarry . See below , 1. 32—3 . 30. Recalling laws . ] At the very time when Domitian had this tragical ...
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... cause of the bus'nefs ? why do you ask ? a friend marries : Nor does he admit many . Only let us live , these things will be done , 135 Done openly , and will defire to be reported in the public regifters . Mean while a great torment ...
... cause of the bus'nefs ? why do you ask ? a friend marries : Nor does he admit many . Only let us live , these things will be done , 135 Done openly , and will defire to be reported in the public regifters . Mean while a great torment ...
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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...