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... called upon by the conditions of this series to produce a version which shall be at once literal and idiomatic . In the case of a great writer like Juvenal , who writes for all time , each generation seems to demand a translation of its ...
... called upon by the conditions of this series to produce a version which shall be at once literal and idiomatic . In the case of a great writer like Juvenal , who writes for all time , each generation seems to demand a translation of its ...
Page xxxii
... called the Bacchantes . No such play has ever been heard of ; no tragic play that was ever written would contain passages in dactylic hexameters ; yet we are actually asked to believe that a critic like Cornutus , so anxious to score ...
... called the Bacchantes . No such play has ever been heard of ; no tragic play that was ever written would contain passages in dactylic hexameters ; yet we are actually asked to believe that a critic like Cornutus , so anxious to score ...
Page xxxvi
... mainly to what might be called the seamy side of Roman life - a side to which some parallel may be found in our own boasted centres of civilization . Juvenal was no politician ; he never casts an eye xxxvi INTRODUCTION.
... mainly to what might be called the seamy side of Roman life - a side to which some parallel may be found in our own boasted centres of civilization . Juvenal was no politician ; he never casts an eye xxxvi INTRODUCTION.
Page xxxvii
... called Cicero the " Father of his Country " : Sed Roma parentem , Roma patrem patriae Ciceronem libera dixit . ( viii . 243-4 . ) THE Satura oF ROME The classical passage on Roman Satura is to be found in Quintilian , Inst . Orat . X. i ...
... called Cicero the " Father of his Country " : Sed Roma parentem , Roma patrem patriae Ciceronem libera dixit . ( viii . 243-4 . ) THE Satura oF ROME The classical passage on Roman Satura is to be found in Quintilian , Inst . Orat . X. i ...
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... called after Menippus : quod is quoque omnigeno carmine saturas suas expoliverat ; but among the many passages in which Menippus is mentioned by those who must have known his writings there is no hint that he ever wrote in verse ...
... called after Menippus : quod is quoque omnigeno carmine saturas suas expoliverat ; but among the many passages in which Menippus is mentioned by those who must have known his writings there is no hint that he ever wrote in verse ...
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Page 198 - Augustum. iam pridem, ex quo suffragia nulli vendimus, effudit curas; nam qui dabat olim imperium, fasces, legiones, omnia, nunc se continet atque duas tantum res anxius optat, 80 panem et circenses. 'perituros audio multos.
Page 318 - ... quo didicisse, nisi hoc fermentum et quae semel intus innata est rupto iecore exierit caprificus?' 25 en pallor seniumque! o mores, usque adeone scire tuum nihil est nisi te scire hoc sciat alter? 'at pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier "hic est." ten cirratorum centum dictata fuisse pro nihilo pendes?
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Page 318 - ... serena ingentis trepidare Titos, cum carmina lumbum 20 intrant et tremulo scalpuntur ubi intima versu. tun, vetule, auriculis alienis colligis escas, articulis quibus et dicas cute perditus 'ohe'?
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Page 316 - O CURAS hominum, o quantum est in rebus inane ! " "quis leget haec ? " " min tu istud ais ? nemo hercule." " nemo ?
Page 334 - Haud cuivis promptum est murmurque humilesque susurros Tollere de templis et aperto vivere voto. Mens bona, fama, fides...
Page 320 - Quisquis es, o modo quem ex adverso dicere feci, Non ego, quum scribo, si forte quid aptius exit, (Quando haec rara avis est) si quid tamen aptius exit', Laudari metuam ; neque enim mihi cornea fibra est. Sed recti finemque extremumque esse recuso EUGE tuum et BELLE. Nam BELLE hoc excute totum : Quid non intus habet?