A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius: With Explanatory Notes in which These Difficult Satirists are Rendered Easy and Familiar to the Reader, Volume 1N. Bliss, R. Bliss, and R. Bliss, Jun., 1807 |
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... head ” - - “ don't vex her — she is asleep . ' " " 117. Can compute , & c . ] i . e . Can be so sunk into the most sordid and meanest avarice , as to be reckoning , at the year's end , what they have gained out of these doles which were ...
... head ” - - “ don't vex her — she is asleep . ' " " 117. Can compute , & c . ] i . e . Can be so sunk into the most sordid and meanest avarice , as to be reckoning , at the year's end , what they have gained out of these doles which were ...
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... heads on these occasions , and which , at other times , were hung up about the house , as part of the sacred furniture . Here is the first instance , in which their ornaments and habits were like those of the women . 85. And have placed ...
... heads on these occasions , and which , at other times , were hung up about the house , as part of the sacred furniture . Here is the first instance , in which their ornaments and habits were like those of the women . 85. And have placed ...
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... heads , the better to resemble women , and all this they stuffed under a cawl as the women did . 97. Female garments . ] Scutulata - garments made of needle- work , in form of shields or targets , worn by women . Smooth white vests ...
... heads , the better to resemble women , and all this they stuffed under a cawl as the women did . 97. Female garments . ] Scutulata - garments made of needle- work , in form of shields or targets , worn by women . Smooth white vests ...
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... head : to the no small comfort of the vulgar , who thought this a propitious sign , as giving assent to their petitions . See the last note . 126. Sweated with Mars's shields . ] The ancilia were so called from ancisus , cut or pared ...
... head : to the no small comfort of the vulgar , who thought this a propitious sign , as giving assent to their petitions . See the last note . 126. Sweated with Mars's shields . ] The ancilia were so called from ancisus , cut or pared ...
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... and was armed with a shield , scythe , and head - piece , with the figure of a fish on the crest . The Retiarius tried to throw his net over the 16 Done openly , and will desire to be reported in 62 SAT . If . JUVENALIS SATIRE .
... and was armed with a shield , scythe , and head - piece , with the figure of a fish on the crest . The Retiarius tried to throw his net over the 16 Done openly , and will desire to be reported in 62 SAT . If . JUVENALIS SATIRE .
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Page 347 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Page 218 - O demens, ita servus homo est? nil fecerit, esto: Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione voluntas.
Page 234 - Audio, quid veteres olim moneatis amici: Pone seram, cohibe: sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes ? cauta est et ab illis incipit uxor.
Page 192 - Credo Pudicitiam Saturno rege moratam in terris visamque diu, cum frigida parvas praeberet spelunca domos, ignemque Laremque et pecus et dominos communi clauderet umbra...
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 - The satyrical 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 220 - Is there any woman that blushes at divorce now that certain illustrious and noble ladies reckon their years, not by the number of consuls, but by the number of their husbands...
Page 218 - Pone crucem servo: meruit quo crimine servus Supplicium ? quis testis adest ? quis detulit ? audi : Nulla unquam de morte hominis cunctatio longa est.
Page 76 - Dum nova canities, dum prima et recta senectus, Dum superest Lachesi, quod torqueat, et pedibus me Porto meis, nullo dextram subeunte bacillo.
Page 50 - Thus and no farther shall my passion stray ; " The first crime past, compels us on to more, " And guilt proves fate, which was but choice before.