The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Horace and the Elegiac Poets, Volume 2 |
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... original stamp ; just as Virgil's more romantic imagination , and his greater susceptibility of spiritual feeling , suggest his affinity with the more impressible Celtic race of the Cisalpine district . In one of his earliest poems ...
... original stamp ; just as Virgil's more romantic imagination , and his greater susceptibility of spiritual feeling , suggest his affinity with the more impressible Celtic race of the Cisalpine district . In one of his earliest poems ...
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... original position of his father appears to have been that of a public slave of the town of Venusia ; and it is supposed that he owed the ancient patrician name of Horatius to the fact that Venusia was included in the Horatian tribe ...
... original position of his father appears to have been that of a public slave of the town of Venusia ; and it is supposed that he owed the ancient patrician name of Horatius to the fact that Venusia was included in the Horatian tribe ...
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... original meaning of the word ' satura , ' before it assumed the censorious character afterwards indicated by the word . It is simply a narrative of a journey to Brundisium , made in company with Maecenas , Virgil , Varius and other men ...
... original meaning of the word ' satura , ' before it assumed the censorious character afterwards indicated by the word . It is simply a narrative of a journey to Brundisium , made in company with Maecenas , Virgil , Varius and other men ...
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... original dramatic character of the Satura by frequently conducting his arguments by means of dialogue . He adheres to it in giving occasionally a narra- tive of some adventure or scene with no particular satirical or ethical tendency ...
... original dramatic character of the Satura by frequently conducting his arguments by means of dialogue . He adheres to it in giving occasionally a narra- tive of some adventure or scene with no particular satirical or ethical tendency ...
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... original Satura and Fescennine verses , partially realised in several of the Satires of Lucilius , first fully realised in the Satires of the second book of Horace , and still more systemati- cally in the Satires of Persius and Juvenal ...
... original Satura and Fescennine verses , partially realised in several of the Satires of Lucilius , first fully realised in the Satires of the second book of Horace , and still more systemati- cally in the Satires of Persius and Juvenal ...
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Page 114 - Munus et officium, nil scribens ipse, docebo ; Unde parentur opes ; quid alat formetque poetam ; Quid deceat, quid non ; quo virtus, quo ferat error.
Page xxvii - Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about : but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went...
Page 302 - Ordiar et caeso moenia firma Remo, Eductosque pares silvestri ex ubere reges, Crescet et ingenium sub tua iussa meum...
Page 168 - Non possidentem multa vocaveris Recte beatum; rectius occupat Nomen beati, qui deorum Muneribus sapienter uti Duramque callet pauperiem pati Peiusque leto flagitium timet, Non ille pro caris amicis Aut patria timidus perire.
Page 318 - ... nec tibi clamatae somnus amarus erit. sola eris et solos spectabis, Cynthia, montes et pecus et fines pauperis agricolae. illic te nulli poterunt corrumpere ludi, fanaque peccatis plurima causa tuis. 10 illic assidue tauros spectabis arantes, et vitem docta ponere falce comas ; atque ibi rara feres inculto tura sacello, haedus ubi agrestes corruet ante focos ; protinus et nuda choreas imitabere sura ; omnia ab externo sint modo tuta viro.
Page 315 - ... niger clauderet ora liquor : 'Di maris Aegaei quos sunt penes aequora, Venti, Et quaecumque meum degravat unda caput, Quo rapitis miseros tenerae lanuginis annos?
Page 111 - Vivere si recte nescis decede peritis. Lusisti satis, edisti satis atque bibisti : Tempus abire tibi est, ne potum largius aequo Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.
Page 243 - Messalla meus, cui dulcia poma Delia selectis detrahat arboribus: Et tantum venerata virum, hunc sedula curet, Huic paret atque epulas ipsa ministra gerat.