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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... husband and prostituted to Regu- lus , in order to avoid fome information which Latinus dreaded , and trembled under the apprehenfion of . 37. Can remove you . ] i . e . Set you afide , fupplant you in the good graces of Teftators . Who ...
... husband and prostituted to Regu- lus , in order to avoid fome information which Latinus dreaded , and trembled under the apprehenfion of . 37. Can remove you . ] i . e . Set you afide , fupplant you in the good graces of Teftators . Who ...
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... husband - who turns bawd by profti- tuting his wife for gain , and thus receives the goods of the adul- terer , as ... husbands panders to their lewdness , and fo caufing the legacies to be given to them . Taught to look upon the ceiling ...
... husband - who turns bawd by profti- tuting his wife for gain , and thus receives the goods of the adul- terer , as ... husbands panders to their lewdness , and fo caufing the legacies to be given to them . Taught to look upon the ceiling ...
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... husband , reprefents her as mentioning a like particular- 66 My whole night's comfort is the tuneable ferenade of that " wakeful nightingale - his nofe . " 58. A cohort . ] A company of foot in a regiment , or legion , which confifted ...
... husband , reprefents her as mentioning a like particular- 66 My whole night's comfort is the tuneable ferenade of that " wakeful nightingale - his nofe . " 58. A cohort . ] A company of foot in a regiment , or legion , which confifted ...
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... husband thirsting , mixes a toad , 70 And , a 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 ...
... husband thirsting , mixes a toad , 70 And , a 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 ...
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... husband lugs about his fick or breeding wife in a litter , and claims her dole . 123 This afks for the abfent . ] litter , pretending his wife is in it . Another brings an empty Cunning in a known art . ] i . e . He had often practifed ...
... husband lugs about his fick or breeding wife in a litter , and claims her dole . 123 This afks for the abfent . ] litter , pretending his wife is in it . Another brings an empty Cunning in a known art . ] i . e . He had often practifed ...
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againſt AINSW alfo alludes alſo antient atque becauſe Bona Dea Boötes Cæfar called Campania caufe cauſe Comp Crifpinus cùm Cybele defcribed defire denotes Domitian drefs effeminacy emperor expence fafe faid fame fatire fays fecret feems feftertia fenators fenfe fervants feven fhall fhew fhould fignifies firft fituation flaves fleep fmall fome fomething fometimes ftand fubject fuch fuppofed Gabii Hæc Hence herſelf himſelf honour houfe houſe huſband itſelf Juvenal laft lefs mafter means moft moſt muft muſt Nævolus Nero noble obferved occafion Ovid paffage pafs perfon pleaſe poet poor Prætor prefent purpoſe quæ quàm quid Quintilian quis quod reafon reprefents Retiarius rich Romans Rome Satire ſeems ſhe ſmall ſtand ſuch tamen thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou tibi tunc ufed ufual Umbritius underſtand uſed vice Virg Virro whofe wife women wretches yourſelf
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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...