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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... woman ( The best way of the highest success now - a - days ) lifts up into heaven . But , by the poet's manner of ... women at Rome , who kept men for their criminal pleasures , and then , at their death , left them their heirs , in ...
... woman ( The best way of the highest success now - a - days ) lifts up into heaven . But , by the poet's manner of ... women at Rome , who kept men for their criminal pleasures , and then , at their death , left them their heirs , in ...
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... woman , skilful in preparing poifons . She helped Nero to poison Bri- tannicus , the fon of Claudius and Meffalina ; and Agrippina to dispatch Claudius . The woman alluded to by Juvenal ( 1. 69. ) he here ftyles - melior Locufta - a ...
... woman , skilful in preparing poifons . She helped Nero to poison Bri- tannicus , the fon of Claudius and Meffalina ; and Agrippina to dispatch Claudius . The woman alluded to by Juvenal ( 1. 69. ) he here ftyles - melior Locufta - a ...
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... women . Juffos lapides fua poft veftigia mittunt : Saxa Ponere duritiem cæpêre , fuumque rigorem , Mollirique morâ , mollitaque ducere formam , & c . Hence Juvenal fays - mollia faxa . Ib . 1. 399–402 , It is most likely , that the ...
... women . Juffos lapides fua poft veftigia mittunt : Saxa Ponere duritiem cæpêre , fuumque rigorem , Mollirique morâ , mollitaque ducere formam , & c . Hence Juvenal fays - mollia faxa . Ib . 1. 399–402 , It is most likely , that the ...
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... women , the one Virtue , the other Pleafure , each of which used many arguments to gain bim - but he made choice of Virtue , and repulfed the other with the fevereft reproaches . See Xen . Memor . and Cic . de Offic . Lib . i . 21 ...
... women , the one Virtue , the other Pleafure , each of which used many arguments to gain bim - but he made choice of Virtue , and repulfed the other with the fevereft reproaches . See Xen . Memor . and Cic . de Offic . Lib . i . 21 ...
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... women ufurp the province of the men ? do we take upon us thofe functions which belong to them ? 53. A few arefile . ] A few women there are , who are of fuch a masculine turn of mind , as to wreille in public . See Sat. i . 22-3 , and ...
... women ufurp the province of the men ? do we take upon us thofe functions which belong to them ? 53. A few arefile . ] A few women there are , who are of fuch a masculine turn of mind , as to wreille in public . See Sat. i . 22-3 , and ...
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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...