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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... present size , in which it appears in print , with a design to add its assistance in explaining these difficult authors , not only to school - boys and young be- ginners , but to numbers in a more advanced age , who , by having been ...
... present size , in which it appears in print , with a design to add its assistance in explaining these difficult authors , not only to school - boys and young be- ginners , but to numbers in a more advanced age , who , by having been ...
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... present publication be found to answer this end , not only to school - boys , but to those also who would be glad to recover such a competent knowledge of the Latin tongue , as to encourage the renewal of their acquaintance with the ...
... present publication be found to answer this end , not only to school - boys , but to those also who would be glad to recover such a competent knowledge of the Latin tongue , as to encourage the renewal of their acquaintance with the ...
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... present ? says the poet . itself . The die . ] A chief instrument of gaming - put here for gaming ΜΕΤΟΝ . 89. These spirits . ] Animus signifies spirit or courage ; and in this sense we are to understand it here . As if the poet said ...
... present ? says the poet . itself . The die . ] A chief instrument of gaming - put here for gaming ΜΕΤΟΝ . 89. These spirits . ] Animus signifies spirit or courage ; and in this sense we are to understand it here . As if the poet said ...
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... present . Why should I fear , or doubt to defend my place ? altho ' Born at the Euphrates , which the soft holes in my ear Prove , though I should deny it but five houses 105 Procure 400 ( sestertia ) , what does the purple confer more ...
... present . Why should I fear , or doubt to defend my place ? altho ' Born at the Euphrates , which the soft holes in my ear Prove , though I should deny it but five houses 105 Procure 400 ( sestertia ) , what does the purple confer more ...
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... present punishment , when you put off your clothes , Turgid , and carry an indigested peacock to the baths : Hence sudden deaths , and intestate old age . A new story , nor is it a sorrowful one , goes thro ' all companies : 145 A ...
... present punishment , when you put off your clothes , Turgid , and carry an indigested peacock to the baths : Hence sudden deaths , and intestate old age . A new story , nor is it a sorrowful one , goes thro ' all companies : 145 A ...
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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.
Page 216 - Labente officio, crudis donanda : nee illud, Quod prima pro nocte datur ; cum lance beata Dacicus, et scripto radiat Germanicus auro. Si tibi simplicitas uxoria, deditus uni 205 Est animus : submitte caput cervice parata Ferre jugum : nullam invenies, quae parcat amanti.
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.