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 Reader : in Two Volumes, Band 1Editor, and sold at T. Becket's, 1789 - 443 Seiten |
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... Rome - Christian , possessed of divine reve- lation , is better than Heathen Rome without it , is not for me to determine : but , I fear , that the perufal of Juvenal will furnish us with too ferious a reason to observe , that , not ...
... Rome - Christian , possessed of divine reve- lation , is better than Heathen Rome without it , is not for me to determine : but , I fear , that the perufal of Juvenal will furnish us with too ferious a reason to observe , that , not ...
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... Rome , who expofed themselves in the purfuit of mafculine exercites , which were fo fhamefully contrary to all female delicacy . 24. The patricians . ] The nobles of Rome . They were the defcendents of fuch as were created fenators in ...
... Rome , who expofed themselves in the purfuit of mafculine exercites , which were fo fhamefully contrary to all female delicacy . 24. The patricians . ] The nobles of Rome . They were the defcendents of fuch as were created fenators in ...
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... Rome . Crifpinus . ] He , from a flave , had been made master of the horse to Nero . Canopus . ] A city of Egypt , addicted to all manner of effeminacy and debauchery - famous for a temple of Serapis , a god of the Egyptians . This city ...
... Rome . Crifpinus . ] He , from a flave , had been made master of the horse to Nero . Canopus . ] A city of Egypt , addicted to all manner of effeminacy and debauchery - famous for a temple of Serapis , a god of the Egyptians . This city ...
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... Rome , who could fuffer themselves to be fummoned , by the common crier , in order to fhare in the diftribution of the dole - baskets . 100. The very defcendents of the Trojans . ] Ipfos Trojuge- nas - from Troja - or Trojanus - and ...
... Rome , who could fuffer themselves to be fummoned , by the common crier , in order to fhare in the diftribution of the dole - baskets . 100. The very defcendents of the Trojans . ] Ipfos Trojuge- nas - from Troja - or Trojanus - and ...
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... Rome . - The Tri- bunes , at their firft inftitution , were two , afterwards came to be ten - they were keepers of the liberties of the people , against the incroachments of the fenate . They were called Tribunes , because at first set ...
... Rome . - The Tri- bunes , at their firft inftitution , were two , afterwards came to be ten - they were keepers of the liberties of the people , against the incroachments of the fenate . They were called Tribunes , because at first set ...
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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...