Decimi Junii Juvenalis Satirae XIII: thirteen satires of Juvenal |
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Page xxxiv
... Persius to come to an early dinner at twelve and hear Homer and Virgil — a form of dissi- pation , in Juvenal's judgment , too exciting to be indulged in often . Perhaps the clearest trace of all is the pretty and sympa- thetic ...
... Persius to come to an early dinner at twelve and hear Homer and Virgil — a form of dissi- pation , in Juvenal's judgment , too exciting to be indulged in often . Perhaps the clearest trace of all is the pretty and sympa- thetic ...
Page xxxv
... Persius was too good a Stoic to be annoyed by the general unwisdom except so far as it presented a temptation to himself . So far as they have a serious purpose ( and Persius is very serious ) they preach where Juvenal denounces . It ...
... Persius was too good a Stoic to be annoyed by the general unwisdom except so far as it presented a temptation to himself . So far as they have a serious purpose ( and Persius is very serious ) they preach where Juvenal denounces . It ...
Page xxxvi
... Persius , with all his gravity and his pathetic anxiety for self - improve- ment , has a strong sense of the propriety of enjoying life , and even of exhibiting gladiators as often as the emperor thought proper to gazette a victory ...
... Persius , with all his gravity and his pathetic anxiety for self - improve- ment , has a strong sense of the propriety of enjoying life , and even of exhibiting gladiators as often as the emperor thought proper to gazette a victory ...
Page xxxvii
... Persius is firmly convinced all the while that nothing but the teaching of those despised Greeks can save his fashionable contemporaries from the bondage of feverish desire , and the ruinous consciousness of growing degra- dation . Nor ...
... Persius is firmly convinced all the while that nothing but the teaching of those despised Greeks can save his fashionable contemporaries from the bondage of feverish desire , and the ruinous consciousness of growing degra- dation . Nor ...
Page xxxviii
... Persius , rather than plead guilty to the charge of having borrowed nothing from Greece , should have chosen to represent themselves as con- tinuators of Aristophanes . It is characteristic of Roman society that the satura of Ennius ...
... Persius , rather than plead guilty to the charge of having borrowed nothing from Greece , should have chosen to represent themselves as con- tinuators of Aristophanes . It is characteristic of Roman society that the satura of Ennius ...
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Page 146 - ... quidam sortiti metuentem sabbata patrem nil praeter nubes et caeli numen adorant, nee distare putant humana carne suillam qua pater abstinuit, mox et praeputia ponunt; Romanas autem soliti contemnere leges ioo ludaicum ediscunt et servant ac metuunt ius, tradidit arcano quodcumque volumine Moyses, non monstrare vias eadem nisi sacra colenti, quaesitum ad fontem solos deducere verpos.
Page 105 - ... notum qui pueri qualisque futura sit uxor. ut tamen et poscas aliquid voveasque sacellis exta et candiduli divina tomacula porci, 355 orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano. fortem posce animum mortis terrore carentem, qui spatium vitae extremum inter munera ponat naturae, qui ferre queat quoscumque labores, nesciat irasci, cupiat nihil et potiores 360 Herculis aerumnas credat saevosque labores et venere et cenis et pluma Sardanapalli.
Page 104 - Nil ergo optabunt homines ? Si consilium vis, Permittes ipsis expendere numinibus quid Conveniat nobis rebusque sit utile nostris. Nam pro jucundis aptissima quaeque dabunt di. Carior est illis homo quam sibi.
Page 17 - Jam pridem Syrus in Tiberim defluxit Orontes, Et linguam et mores et cum tibicine chordas Obliquas, nec non gentilia tympana secum Vexit, et ad Circum jussas prostare puellas.
Page 73 - Incertaeque rei ; Phalaris licet imperet, ut sis Falsus, et admoto dictet perjuria tauro, Summum crede nefas animam praeferre pudori, Et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas.
Page 137 - Cur tamen hos tu Evasisse putes, quos diri conscia facti Mens habet attonitos et surdo verbere caedit Occultum quatiente animo tortore flagellum?
Page 7 - Paulatimque anima caluerunt mollia saxa, Et maribus nudas ostendit Pyrrha puellas, Quidquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, Gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli.
Page 160 - Inde furor vulgo, quod numina vicinorum Odit uterque locus, quum solos credat habendos Esse deos, quos ipse colit.
Page 95 - Bithyno libeat vigilare tyranno. finem animae quae res humanas miscuit olim, non gladii, non saxa dabunt nee tela, sed ille Cannarum vindex et tanti sanguinis ultor 165 anulus.