A new and literal translation of Juvenal and Persius; with notes by M. Madan. [2 issues].Brett Smith and son, 1813 |
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... Nero , pleaded causes with great reputation . About his middle age he ap- plied himself to the study of Poetry ; and , as he saw a daily increase of vice and folly , he addict- ed himself to writing Satire : but , having said something ...
... Nero , pleaded causes with great reputation . About his middle age he ap- plied himself to the study of Poetry ; and , as he saw a daily increase of vice and folly , he addict- ed himself to writing Satire : but , having said something ...
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... Nero's charioteer , or , as the poet humourously calls him , his Automedon , and used to drive out Nero and his minion Sporus , whom Nero castrated , to make him , as much as he could , resemble a woman , and whom he used as a mistress ...
... Nero's charioteer , or , as the poet humourously calls him , his Automedon , and used to drive out Nero and his minion Sporus , whom Nero castrated , to make him , as much as he could , resemble a woman , and whom he used as a mistress ...
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... Nero . the 63. Capacious waxen tablets . ] These are here called ceras , some- times they are called cerata tabella - because they were thin pieces of wood , covered over with wax , on which the ancients wrote with the point of a sharp ...
... Nero . the 63. Capacious waxen tablets . ] These are here called ceras , some- times they are called cerata tabella - because they were thin pieces of wood , covered over with wax , on which the ancients wrote with the point of a sharp ...
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... Nero's , who poisoned three uncles , and by forging their wills , made himself heir to all they had . 68. By small tables . ] Short testaments , contained in a few words . Comp . note on 1. 63 . A wet gem . ] i . e . A seal , which was ...
... Nero's , who poisoned three uncles , and by forging their wills , made himself heir to all they had . 68. By small tables . ] Short testaments , contained in a few words . Comp . note on 1. 63 . A wet gem . ] i . e . A seal , which was ...
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... Nero's , and most terrible will be the consequence . In that torch . ] This cruel punishment seems to have been proper to incendiaries , in which light the poet humourously supposes the satirizers of the emperor's favourites , and other ...
... Nero's , and most terrible will be the consequence . In that torch . ] This cruel punishment seems to have been proper to incendiaries , in which light the poet humourously supposes the satirizers of the emperor's favourites , and other ...
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Seite 361 - For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
Seite 148 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young: The jolly god in triumph comes; Sound the trumpets, beat the drums...
Seite vi - Poets, Horace, Juvenal, and Persius, may contribute wonderfully to give a man a detestation of vice, and a contempt of the common methods of mankind; which they have set out in such true colours, that they must give a very generous sense to those who delight in reading them often. Persius his second satyr may well pass for one of the best lectures in divinity.
Seite 86 - Esquilias dictumque petunt a vimine collem, viscera magnarum domuum dominique futuri. ingenium velox, audacia perdita, sermo promptus et Isaeo torrentior. ede, quid ilium esse putes? quemvis hominem secum attulit ad nos: 75 grammaticus rhetor geometres pictor aliptes augur schoenobates medicus magus, omnia novit Graeculus esuriens: in caelum, iusseris, ibit.
Seite 28 - ... poena tamen praesens, cum tu deponis amictus turgidus et crudum pavonem in balnea portas.
Seite 23 - If a numeral noun agree in number, case, and gender, with sestertius, then it denotes so many sestertii — as decem sestertii. Secondly : If a numeral noun of another case be joined with the genitive plural of sestertius it denotes so many thousand, as decem ses tertinm signifies 10,000 sestertii.
Seite 216 - Labente officio, crudis donanda : nee illud, Quod prima pro nocte datur ; cum lance beata Dacicus, et scripto radiat Germanicus auro. Si tibi simplicitas uxoria, deditus uni 205 Est animus : submitte caput cervice parata Ferre jugum : nullam invenies, quae parcat amanti.
Seite 63 - Manes, et subterranea regna, Et contum, et Stygio ranas in gurgite nigras, Atque una transire vadum tot millia cymba, Nee pueri credunt, nisi qui nondum aere lavantur.