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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... famous Roman fatyrift , born at Aurunca , an ancient city of Latium , in Italy . He means - Perhaps you will afk , " how it is that I can " think of taking the fame ground as that great fatyrift Luci lius - and why I fhould rather chufe ...
... famous Roman fatyrift , born at Aurunca , an ancient city of Latium , in Italy . He means - Perhaps you will afk , " how it is that I can " think of taking the fame ground as that great fatyrift Luci lius - and why I fhould rather chufe ...
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... famous for a temple of Serapis , a god of the Egyptians . This city was built by Menelaus , in memory of his pilot , Canopus , who died there , and was after- wards canonized . See Sat. xv . 1. 46 . 27. His fhoulder recalling ...
... famous for a temple of Serapis , a god of the Egyptians . This city was built by Menelaus , in memory of his pilot , Canopus , who died there , and was after- wards canonized . See Sat. xv . 1. 46 . 27. His fhoulder recalling ...
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... famous mimic ; fhe was fent privately by her husband and prostituted to Regu- lus , in order to avoid fome information which Latinus dreaded , and trembled under the apprehenfion of . 37. Can remove you . ] i . e . Set you afide ...
... famous mimic ; fhe was fent privately by her husband and prostituted to Regu- lus , in order to avoid fome information which Latinus dreaded , and trembled under the apprehenfion of . 37. Can remove you . ] i . e . Set you afide ...
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... famous for a foft kind of wine . 70. About to reach forth . ] Porrectura - the husband is fup . pofed to be fo thirsty , as not to examine the contents of the draught ; of this fhe avails herself , by reaching to him fome Calenian wine ...
... famous for a foft kind of wine . 70. About to reach forth . ] Porrectura - the husband is fup . pofed to be fo thirsty , as not to examine the contents of the draught ; of this fhe avails herself , by reaching to him fome Calenian wine ...
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... famous authors in Rome . Hor . Lib . i . Epift . iii . l . 16 , 17. mentions this- Et tangere vitat Scripta Palatinus quæcunque recepit Apollo . But I fhould rather think , that the poet means here , the forum which Auguftus built ...
... famous authors in Rome . Hor . Lib . i . Epift . iii . l . 16 , 17. mentions this- Et tangere vitat Scripta Palatinus quæcunque recepit Apollo . But I fhould rather think , that the poet means here , the forum which Auguftus built ...
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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...