Decimi Junii Juvenalis Satirae XIII: thirteen satires of Juvenal |
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Page xiv
... speaks of his contemporaries as selling themselves to the stage and the arena , without a Nero to compel them ; and at v . 221 , we are informed that the musical tastes of Nero were the worst atrocity which called for the righteous ...
... speaks of his contemporaries as selling themselves to the stage and the arena , without a Nero to compel them ; and at v . 221 , we are informed that the musical tastes of Nero were the worst atrocity which called for the righteous ...
Page xxviii
... too insecure to tolerate disaffection ; the political classes insisted on keeping up the habit of treating almost every emperor as an usurper , and speak- ing and acting as if they were living under a xxviii INTRODUCTION .
... too insecure to tolerate disaffection ; the political classes insisted on keeping up the habit of treating almost every emperor as an usurper , and speak- ing and acting as if they were living under a xxviii INTRODUCTION .
Page xxxvi
... speaks of the self - indulgence which he shared with so many , and of the incu- rable inconstancy of purpose which had struck him from the first as the great enemy to reason and to peace of mind . But a wise man is seldom impatient with ...
... speaks of the self - indulgence which he shared with so many , and of the incu- rable inconstancy of purpose which had struck him from the first as the great enemy to reason and to peace of mind . But a wise man is seldom impatient with ...
Page xl
... speaks of his " suavity , " which he contrasts with the " asperity " of Lucilius . It is easy to believe that there was a freshness and a raciness about Lucilius that made his jolting and disjointed invectives interest- ing reading to ...
... speaks of his " suavity , " which he contrasts with the " asperity " of Lucilius . It is easy to believe that there was a freshness and a raciness about Lucilius that made his jolting and disjointed invectives interest- ing reading to ...
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... speaks of them as shewing a laudable spirit of literary enterprise . S. J. 5 When one considers the immense naïveté of Plautus and the way in which he overloads his subject with morality , we may infer that where the support and ...
... speaks of them as shewing a laudable spirit of literary enterprise . S. J. 5 When one considers the immense naïveté of Plautus and the way in which he overloads his subject with morality , we may infer that where the support and ...
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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.