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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... poet Epimenides , whom he calls " a prophet of their own , " for they ac- counted their poets writers of divine oracles . Let this teach us to distinguish between the use and abuse of classical knowledge - when it tends to inform the ...
... poet Epimenides , whom he calls " a prophet of their own , " for they ac- counted their poets writers of divine oracles . Let this teach us to distinguish between the use and abuse of classical knowledge - when it tends to inform the ...
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... poets rehearse their works , and intending to repay them in kind . Next he in- forms us , why he addicts himself to ... poet by their applauses . See sat . vii . 1. 40-4 . Per- sius , prolog . 1. 7. and note . Hor . lib . I. sat . iv ...
... poets rehearse their works , and intending to repay them in kind . Next he in- forms us , why he addicts himself to ... poet by their applauses . See sat . vii . 1. 40-4 . Per- sius , prolog . 1. 7. and note . Hor . lib . I. sat . iv ...
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... ( poet ) recite his comedies to me with impunity , ludes to the borrowing and repayment of money . When a man repaid money which he had borrowed , he was said to replace it - reponere . So our poet , looking upon himself as indebted to ...
... ( poet ) recite his comedies to me with impunity , ludes to the borrowing and repayment of money . When a man repaid money which he had borrowed , he was said to replace it - reponere . So our poet , looking upon himself as indebted to ...
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... poet , since Horace says - Art . Poet . 1. 77 , 8 . Quis tamen exiguos elegos emiserit auctor , Grammatici certant , et adhuc sub judice lis est . By whom invented critics yet contend , And of their vain disputing find no end . FRANCIS ...
... poet , since Horace says - Art . Poet . 1. 77 , 8 . Quis tamen exiguos elegos emiserit auctor , Grammatici certant , et adhuc sub judice lis est . By whom invented critics yet contend , And of their vain disputing find no end . FRANCIS ...
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... poets recited their works , before they were read , or performed in public . His house was planted round with plane ... poet means to express the wearisomeness of the continual re- petition of the same things over and over again , and ...
... poets recited their works , before they were read , or performed in public . His house was planted round with plane ... poet means to express the wearisomeness of the continual re- petition of the same things over and over again , and ...
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Page 361 - For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 28 - ... poena tamen praesens, cum tu deponis amictus turgidus et crudum pavonem in balnea portas.
Page 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.
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Page 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.