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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... given him , speaks , as if he intended to repay them in kind , by writing , and reciting his verses , as they had done theirs . Sat. vii . I. 40-4 . Perfius Prolog . 1. 7. Hor . Lib . 1. Sat. iv . 1. 73-4 . 2. Thefeis . ] A poem , of ...
... given him , speaks , as if he intended to repay them in kind , by writing , and reciting his verses , as they had done theirs . Sat. vii . I. 40-4 . Perfius Prolog . 1. 7. Hor . Lib . 1. Sat. iv . 1. 73-4 . 2. Thefeis . ] A poem , of ...
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... given counsel to Sylla , that , a private man , foundly He fhould fleep . It is a foolish clemency , when every where so many Poets you may meet , to fpare paper , that will perish . petitions ; which were attended with fuch loud and ...
... given counsel to Sylla , that , a private man , foundly He fhould fleep . It is a foolish clemency , when every where so many Poets you may meet , to fpare paper , that will perish . petitions ; which were attended with fuch loud and ...
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... given to the Afri- cans ; and , befides this , Marius had referved fufficient to main- tain himself in a luxurious manner . See above note on 1. 47-8 . 51. Worthy the Venufinian lamp ? ] i . e . The pen of Horace himfelf ? This charming ...
... given to the Afri- cans ; and , befides this , Marius had referved fufficient to main- tain himself in a luxurious manner . See above note on 1. 47-8 . 51. Worthy the Venufinian lamp ? ] i . e . The pen of Horace himfelf ? This charming ...
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... given to them . Taught to look upon the ceiling . ] As inobfervant of his wife's infamy then tranfacting before him - this he was well killed in . See HoR . Lib . 3. Ode vi . 1. 25-32 . 57. At a cup , & c . ] Another device was , to fet ...
... given to them . Taught to look upon the ceiling . ] As inobfervant of his wife's infamy then tranfacting before him - this he was well killed in . See HoR . Lib . 3. Ode vi . 1. 25-32 . 57. At a cup , & c . ] Another device was , to fet ...
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... given his eftate to ftables . ] i . e . Has fquandered away all his patrimony in breeding and keeping horfes . Præfepe , fometimes means - a cell , ftews , or brothel . Perhaps , this may be the fenfe here , and the poet may mean , that ...
... given his eftate to ftables . ] i . e . Has fquandered away all his patrimony in breeding and keeping horfes . Præfepe , fometimes means - a cell , ftews , or brothel . Perhaps , this may be the fenfe here , and the poet may mean , that ...
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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...