A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius: With Explanatory Notes in which These Difficult Satirists are Rendered Easy and Familiar to the Reader, Band 1N. Bliss, R. Bliss, and R. Bliss, Jun., 1807 |
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... emperor Domitian gave so much encouragement to such people , that many made their for- tunes by secret informations ; insomuch that nobody was safe , how- ever innocent ; even one informer was afraid of another . See be- low , I. 35 , 6 ...
... emperor Domitian gave so much encouragement to such people , that many made their for- tunes by secret informations ; insomuch that nobody was safe , how- ever innocent ; even one informer was afraid of another . See be- low , I. 35 , 6 ...
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... emperor Caligula instituted , at this place , games , wherein orators and rhetoricians were to contend for a prize . Those , whose performances were not approved , were to wipe them out with a spunge , or to lick them out with their 35 ...
... emperor Caligula instituted , at this place , games , wherein orators and rhetoricians were to contend for a prize . Those , whose performances were not approved , were to wipe them out with a spunge , or to lick them out with their 35 ...
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... emperor's villa ; and all this , because , when a boy , he had been 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 ...
... emperor's villa ; and all this , because , when a boy , he had been 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 ...
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... emperor Nero . 63. Capacious waxen tablets . ] These are here called ceras , some- times they are called ceratæ tabella - because they were thin pieces of wood , covered over with wax , on which the ancients wrote with the point of a ...
... emperor Nero . 63. Capacious waxen tablets . ] These are here called ceras , some- times they are called ceratæ tabella - because they were thin pieces of wood , covered over with wax , on which the ancients wrote with the point of a ...
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... emperor . Occurs . ] Meets you in the public street , and thus occurs to the observation of the satirist . Comp . 1. 63 , 4 . 69. Calenian wine . ] Calenum was a city in the kingdom of Na- ples , famous for a soft kind of wine . 70 ...
... emperor . Occurs . ] Meets you in the public street , and thus occurs to the observation of the satirist . Comp . 1. 63 , 4 . 69. Calenian wine . ] Calenum was a city in the kingdom of Na- ples , famous for a soft kind of wine . 70 ...
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Seite 347 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Seite 218 - O demens, ita servus homo est? nil fecerit, esto: Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione voluntas.
Seite 234 - Audio, quid veteres olim moneatis amici: Pone seram, cohibe: sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes ? cauta est et ab illis incipit uxor.
Seite 192 - Credo Pudicitiam Saturno rege moratam in terris visamque diu, cum frigida parvas praeberet spelunca domos, ignemque Laremque et pecus et dominos communi clauderet umbra...
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 - The satyrical 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 220 - Is there any woman that blushes at divorce now that certain illustrious and noble ladies reckon their years, not by the number of consuls, but by the number of their husbands...
Seite 218 - Pone crucem servo: meruit quo crimine servus Supplicium ? quis testis adest ? quis detulit ? audi : Nulla unquam de morte hominis cunctatio longa est.
Seite 76 - Dum nova canities, dum prima et recta senectus, Dum superest Lachesi, quod torqueat, et pedibus me Porto meis, nullo dextram subeunte bacillo.
Seite 50 - Thus and no farther shall my passion stray ; " The first crime past, compels us on to more, " And guilt proves fate, which was but choice before.