 | Horace - 1891 - 232 pages
...semper vacuum, semper amabilem Sperat nescius aurae Fallacis. Miseri, quibus 10 i Intemptata nites! Me tabula sacer Votiva paries indicat uvida Suspendisse potenti Vestimenta maris deo. ODE VI. SCR1DKR1S Vario fortis et hostium Victor Maconii carminis alite, Quam rem cunque ferox navibus... | |
 | Virgil - 1892 - 412 pages
...not as a sea-god, but as protector of their homes. For the practice here alluded to cp. Hor. Od. i. 5 me tabula sacer V'otiva paries indicat uvida Suspendisse potenti Vestimenta maris deo. iiullo discrimine, 'careless of its sanctity;' lit. 'making no difference.' puro, 'clear,' 'unobstructed.'... | |
 | American fiction - 1927 - 554 pages
...siren Pyrrha, will, like a rescued mariner, hang up in Neptune's temple his garments and a picture— Me tabula sacer Votiva paries indicat uvida Suspendisse potenti Vestimenta maris deo. For like all amorous poets, Horace employs profanely the sacred forms. The religious custom Juvenal... | |
 | Horace - 1894 - 500 pages
...qui semper vacuam, semper amabilem sperat, nescius aurae fallacis. Miseri quibus intemptata nites: me tabula sacer votiva paries indicat uvida suspendisse potenti vestimenta maris deo. The word is here used in its primitive sense of 'unaccustomed to," 'unfamiliar with' something. Horace... | |
 | Charles King - American fiction - 1894 - 264 pages
...and was as near quoting Horace as community of sentiment and ignorance of language permitted — " me tabula sacer Votiva paries indicat uvida Suspendisse potenti Vestimenta maris deo," which is rendered by the college valedictorian into — " I saved one note, The last you wrote, It... | |
 | Classical philology - 1894 - 840 pages
...assimulat, qui leliciler servatus in templo potentis Neptuni uvidam vestem suam ex voto suspendit: ....me tabula sacer votiva paries indicat uvida suspendisse potenti vestimenta maris deo. Solebant enim. qui ex nauiragio divina ope erepti sunt, in templis deorum marinorum tabulam votivam... | |
 | Horace - 1895 - 284 pages
...qui semper vacuam, semper amabilem sperat, nescius aurae fallacis. miseri, quibus intemptata nites. me tabula sacer votiva paries indicat uvida suspendisse potenti vestimenta maris deo. VI Scriberis Vario fortis et hostium victor, Maeonii carminis alite, quam rem cumque ferox navibus... | |
 | Bible - 1896 - 362 pages
...had been shipwrecked. We have a reference to the last in Horace, Odes, i. 5. 13-16 : , M t i_ i •' 'Me tabula sacer Votiva paries indicat uvida Suspendisse potenti Vestimenta maris deo.' A similar practice prevailed among the early Christians of offering figures of the parts cured, made... | |
 | Horace - Epistolary poetry, Latin - 1896 - 466 pages
...airuf toyAfifror in class. Latin. Sperat nescius aurae Fallacis. Miseri, quibus Intemptata nites ! Me tabula sacer Votiva paries indicat uvida Suspendisse potenti Vestimenta maris deo. II. aurae, 'ignorant how soon the wind may shift.' It is a common metaphor for anything that is fickle... | |
 | George Santayana - Aesthetics - 1896 - 294 pages
...entirely foreign to a modern, scarcely inflected, tongue. Take, for instance, these lines of Horace : me tabula sacer votiva paries indicat uvida suspendisse potenti vestimenta maris deo, or these of Lucretius : Jamque caput quassans grandis suspirat arator Crebrius incassum magnum cecidisse... | |
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Pyrrha, sub antrof cui flavam religas comam, simplex munditiis? heu quoties fidem mutatosque deos flebit et aspera nigris aequora ventis emirabitur insolens, qui nunc te fruitur credulus aurea; qui semper vacuam, semper amabilem sperat nescius aurae fallacis.... 
