Eclogae ex Q. Horatii Flacci poematibusBlanchard and Lea, 1853 - 311 pages |
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... says , Lucanus an Appulus anceps . His father belonged to the lowest class of freemen : he was a freedman ( libertinus ) , which indicates that he had formerly been a slave ; and had , upon his manumission , assumed the name of his ...
... says , Lucanus an Appulus anceps . His father belonged to the lowest class of freemen : he was a freedman ( libertinus ) , which indicates that he had formerly been a slave ; and had , upon his manumission , assumed the name of his ...
Page vi
... says , was equal to that of one destined for the highest position in society , although his father would have been satisfied if his son had followed the same calling as himself — namely , that of a coactor ( Sat. i . 6 , 86 ) ; or , as ...
... says , was equal to that of one destined for the highest position in society , although his father would have been satisfied if his son had followed the same calling as himself — namely , that of a coactor ( Sat. i . 6 , 86 ) ; or , as ...
Page viii
... says ( Epist . ii . 251 ) that poverty , which impels men to bold undertakings , had driven him to attempt verse - making . He sought in poetry the means of sub- sistence , by writing occasional verses . These were not directly paid for ...
... says ( Epist . ii . 251 ) that poverty , which impels men to bold undertakings , had driven him to attempt verse - making . He sought in poetry the means of sub- sistence , by writing occasional verses . These were not directly paid for ...
Page ix
... says , scriptum quaestorium comparavit he bought for himself a clerk- ship to the quaestors . ' These scribae formed by no means an uninfluential class in Rome . They were the under - secretaries in all the government departments , and ...
... says , scriptum quaestorium comparavit he bought for himself a clerk- ship to the quaestors . ' These scribae formed by no means an uninfluential class in Rome . They were the under - secretaries in all the government departments , and ...
Page x
... says , Vixit plurimum in secessu ruris sui Sabini aut Tiburtini : domusque ejus ostenditur circa Tiburnı huculum . Now the grove of Tiburnus , an old local god of Tibur , must have been in , or at least very near , the town . For these ...
... says , Vixit plurimum in secessu ruris sui Sabini aut Tiburtini : domusque ejus ostenditur circa Tiburnı huculum . Now the grove of Tiburnus , an old local god of Tibur , must have been in , or at least very near , the town . For these ...
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Page 163 - Diffugere nives, redeunt iam gramina campis arboribusque comae ; mutat terra vices et decrescentia ripas flumina praetereunt; Gratia cum Nymphis geminisque sororibus audet...
Page 307 - ... verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit aut humana parum cavit natura.
Page 309 - ... qui studet optatam cursu contingere metam, multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit, abstinuit venere et vino ; qui Pythia cantat tibicen, didicit prius extimuitque magistrum. nunc satis est dixisse ' ego mira poemata pango ; occupet extremum scabies ; mihi turpe relinqui est, et quod non didici sane nescire fateri.
Page 164 - Cum semel occideris et de te splendida. Minos Fecerit arbitria, Non, Torquate, genus, non te facundia, non te Restituet pietas.
Page 302 - Verum ita risores, ita commendare dicaces Conveniet Satyros, ita vertere seria ludo, Ne quicunque deus, quicunque adhibebitur heros, Regali conspectus in auro nuper et ostro, Migret in obscuras humili sermone tabernas, Aut dum vitat humum nubes et inania captet.
Page 305 - ... ergo fungar vice cotis, acutum reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsa secandi...
Page 90 - Rectius vives, Licini, neque altum semper urgendo neque, dum procellas cautus horrescis, nimium premendo litus iniquum. auream quisquis mediocritatem diligit, tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula. saepius ventis agitatur ingens pinus et celsae graviore casu decidunt turres feriuntque summos fulgura montes.
Page 94 - Linquenda tellus et domus et placens Uxor, neque harum, quas colis, arborum Te praeter invisas cupressos Ulla brevem dominum sequetur.
Page 245 - De te pendentis, te respicientis amici. 105 Ad summam : sapiens uno minor est Jove, dives, Liber, honoratus, pulcher, rex denique regum, Praecipue sanus, nisi cum pituita molesta est. EPISTOLA II. TROJANI belli scriptorem, maxime Lolli, Dum tu declamas Romae, Praeneste relegi, Qui, quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non, Planius ac melius Chrysippo et Crantore dicit.
Page 157 - cervi, luporum praeda rapacium, 50 sectamur ultro, quos opimus fallere et effugere est triumphus. gens, quae cremato fortis ab Ilio iactata Tuscis aequoribus sacra natosque maturosque patres 55 pertulit Ausonias ad urbes, duris ut ilex tonsa bipennibus nigrae feraci frondis in Algido, per damna, per caedes, ab ipso ducit opes animumque ferro.