A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius: With Copious Explanatory Notes, by which These Difficult Satirists are Rendered Easy and Familiar to the ReaderEditor, and sold at T. Becket's, 1789 - 443 Seiten |
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... She helped Nero to poison Bri- tannicus , the fon of Claudius and Meffalina ; and Agrippina to dispatch Claudius . The woman alluded to by Juvenal ( 1. 69. ) he here ftyles - melior Locufta - a better Locufta - i . e . more killed in ...
... She helped Nero to poison Bri- tannicus , the fon of Claudius and Meffalina ; and Agrippina to dispatch Claudius . The woman alluded to by Juvenal ( 1. 69. ) he here ftyles - melior Locufta - a better Locufta - i . e . more killed in ...
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... She could not bear him ; she was out of all patience . Sour . ] Crabbed , ftern in his appearance . Or tor- vum may be here put for the adverb torvè ― torvè clamantem . Græcifm . See above , 1. 3 , and note . - From among them . ] i . e ...
... She could not bear him ; she was out of all patience . Sour . ] Crabbed , ftern in his appearance . Or tor- vum may be here put for the adverb torvè ― torvè clamantem . Græcifm . See above , 1. 3 , and note . - From among them . ] i . e ...
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... She may be faid - to have smelt him out . 43. Statutes and laws are disturbed . ] From that state of fleep in which you seem to represent them , and from which you wish to awaken them . The Roman jurifprudence feems to have been founded ...
... She may be faid - to have smelt him out . 43. Statutes and laws are disturbed . ] From that state of fleep in which you seem to represent them , and from which you wish to awaken them . The Roman jurifprudence feems to have been founded ...
Seite 53
... she undid during the night what she had done in the day . Arachne . A Lydian damfel , very skilful in fpinning and weaving . She is fabled to have contended with Minerva , and , being out - done , the hanged herself , and was by that ...
... she undid during the night what she had done in the day . Arachne . A Lydian damfel , very skilful in fpinning and weaving . She is fabled to have contended with Minerva , and , being out - done , the hanged herself , and was by that ...
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... she would intimate , that his young wife , having been totally neglected by him , remained ftill - puella , a maiden ; Hifter having no de- fire towards any thing , but what was unnatural with his favou- rite freedman . It is evident ...
... she would intimate , that his young wife , having been totally neglected by him , remained ftill - puella , a maiden ; Hifter having no de- fire towards any thing , but what was unnatural with his favou- rite freedman . It is evident ...
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Seite 372 - Catinensi pumice lumbum squalentes traducit avos emptorque veneni frangenda miseram funestat imagine gentem? tota licet veteres exornent undique cerae atria, nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.
Seite 417 - I'll tell you, friend; a wife man and a fool. 200 You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobler-like, the parfon will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The reft is all but leather or prunella.
Seite 176 - Maecenas, upon whom at first he confetrefl the new honour. He was to precede all other city magistrates, having power to receive appeals from the inferior courts, and to decide almost all causes within the limits of Rome, or one hundred miles round. Before this, there was sometimes a pimfectus urbis created, when the kings, or the greater officers, were absent from the city, to administer justice in their room.
Seite viii - The books that we learn at schools are generally laid aside, with this prejudice, that they were the labours as well as the sorrows of our childhood and education ; but they are among the best of books : the Greek and Roman authors have a spirit in them, a force both of thought and expression, that later ages have not been able to imitate...