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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... noble and learned man , at whofe houfe the poets recited their works , be- fore they were red , or performed in public . His houfe was planted round with plane trees , for the lake of their shade . 13. The convulfed marbles . ] This may ...
... noble and learned man , at whofe houfe the poets recited their works , be- fore they were red , or performed in public . His houfe was planted round with plane trees , for the lake of their shade . 13. The convulfed marbles . ] This may ...
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... noble young adulterer . ] Prætextatus , i . e . the youth , not having laid afide the prætexta , or gown worn by boys , fons of the nobility , till feventeen years of age - yet , in this early period of life , initiated into the ...
... noble young adulterer . ] Prætextatus , i . e . the youth , not having laid afide the prætexta , or gown worn by boys , fons of the nobility , till feventeen years of age - yet , in this early period of life , initiated into the ...
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... noble young adulterer ? If nature denies , indignation makes verse Such as it can : fuch as I , or Cluvienus . 80 From the time that Deucalion ( the fhowers lifting up the fea ) Afcended the mountain with his bark , and asked for lots ...
... noble young adulterer ? If nature denies , indignation makes verse Such as it can : fuch as I , or Cluvienus . 80 From the time that Deucalion ( the fhowers lifting up the fea ) Afcended the mountain with his bark , and asked for lots ...
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... noble family of the Corvini , but fo reduced , that he was obliged to keep theep , as an hired thepherd , near Laurentum , in his own native country . Lau- rentum is a city of Italy , now called Santo Lorenzo . 109. Pallas . ] Pallante ...
... noble family of the Corvini , but fo reduced , that he was obliged to keep theep , as an hired thepherd , near Laurentum , in his own native country . Lau- rentum is a city of Italy , now called Santo Lorenzo . 109. Pallas . ] Pallante ...
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... against the ftare . See Salluft . Bell . Catilin . 28. The table of Sylla . ] Sylla was a noble Roman of the Qualis erat nuper tragico pollutus adulter Concubitu : qui tunc family SAT . II . 47 JUVENAL'S SATIRES . 20 ...
... against the ftare . See Salluft . Bell . Catilin . 28. The table of Sylla . ] Sylla was a noble Roman of the Qualis erat nuper tragico pollutus adulter Concubitu : qui tunc family SAT . II . 47 JUVENAL'S SATIRES . 20 ...
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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...