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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... present ? fays the poet . The die . ] A chief inftrument of gaming - put here for gaming itfelf . Meton . 89. Thefe fpirits . ] Animus fignifies fpirit or courage ; and in this fenfe we are to understand it here . As if the poet faid ...
... present ? fays the poet . The die . ] A chief inftrument of gaming - put here for gaming itfelf . Meton . 89. Thefe fpirits . ] Animus fignifies fpirit or courage ; and in this fenfe we are to understand it here . As if the poet faid ...
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... present punishment , when you put off your cloaths , Turgid , and carry an indigefted peacock to the baths : Hence fudden deaths , and inteftate old age . A new ftory , nor is it a forrowful one , goes panies : N thro ' all com- 145 A ...
... present punishment , when you put off your cloaths , Turgid , and carry an indigefted peacock to the baths : Hence fudden deaths , and inteftate old age . A new ftory , nor is it a forrowful one , goes panies : N thro ' all com- 145 A ...
Page 116
... into her house . Many other fenfes are given of this paffage , as may be feen in Holyday , and in other commentators ; but the above feems , 10 6 Receive , presents to Calvina , or Catiena , That 116 SAT . III . JUVENALIS SATIRE .
... into her house . Many other fenfes are given of this paffage , as may be feen in Holyday , and in other commentators ; but the above feems , 10 6 Receive , presents to Calvina , or Catiena , That 116 SAT . III . JUVENALIS SATIRE .
Page 117
... presents to Calvina , or Catiena , That once and again he may enjoy her but thou When the face of a well - dreffed harlot pleases thee , he- fitateft , 135 And doubteft to lead forth Chione from her high chair . Produce a witness at ...
... presents to Calvina , or Catiena , That once and again he may enjoy her but thou When the face of a well - dreffed harlot pleases thee , he- fitateft , 135 And doubteft to lead forth Chione from her high chair . Produce a witness at ...
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... presents were made : and the mifery was , that the poor were expected to fend fome prefent , on pain of forfeit- ing the favour of the great man . But the poet has a meaning here , which may be gathered from the next note , and from the ...
... presents were made : and the mifery was , that the poor were expected to fend fome prefent , on pain of forfeit- ing the favour of the great man . But the poet has a meaning here , which may be gathered from the next note , and from the ...
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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...