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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... person . -Transparent garments . ] Multicia , quafi multilicia , of many threads . Thefe were fo finely and curiously wrought , that the body might be feen through them . Thou declaimeft . ] Paffeft fentence in the most aggra- yated ...
... person . -Transparent garments . ] Multicia , quafi multilicia , of many threads . Thefe were fo finely and curiously wrought , that the body might be feen through them . Thou declaimeft . ] Paffeft fentence in the most aggra- yated ...
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... person . 185. Veiento . ] Some other proud nobleman , hard of access , who , though fuitors were fometimes with difficulty admitted to him , feldom condescended to speak to them . - Hence Umbritius defcribes him - preffo labello . Yet ...
... person . 185. Veiento . ] Some other proud nobleman , hard of access , who , though fuitors were fometimes with difficulty admitted to him , feldom condescended to speak to them . - Hence Umbritius defcribes him - preffo labello . Yet ...
Page 133
... person , whose poverty was fo great , and fo well known , as to be pro- verbial . See note , Sat. i . 1. 2 . 209-10 . The utmoft addition , & c . ] Ultimus cumulus - the utmoft height - the top - of his unhappiness - as the French fay ...
... person , whose poverty was fo great , and fo well known , as to be pro- verbial . See note , Sat. i . 1. 2 . 209-10 . The utmoft addition , & c . ] Ultimus cumulus - the utmoft height - the top - of his unhappiness - as the French fay ...
Page 238
... person it was that she was fo violently fond of . 104. To be called an actress . ] Ludia - properly fignifies an actress , or woman who dances , or the like , upon the ftage : it feems Ionian fhe bore , with a conftant mind , altho 238 ...
... person it was that she was fo violently fond of . 104. To be called an actress . ] Ludia - properly fignifies an actress , or woman who dances , or the like , upon the ftage : it feems Ionian fhe bore , with a conftant mind , altho 238 ...
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... person , ( Her miferable guests in the mean time are urged with fleep and hunger ) At laft fhe comes fomewhat ruddy : thirsting after A whole flagon , which , in a full pitcher , is prefented , 425 Placed at her feet ; of which another ...
... person , ( Her miferable guests in the mean time are urged with fleep and hunger ) At laft fhe comes fomewhat ruddy : thirsting after A whole flagon , which , in a full pitcher , is prefented , 425 Placed at her feet ; of which another ...
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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...